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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
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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
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Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
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The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
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It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
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