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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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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