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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
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It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
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A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well she should select only one of those qualities.
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