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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
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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French Moralist
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There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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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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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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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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The court is like a palace built of marble I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]
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