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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

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
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Paris
France
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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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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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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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 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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A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle it suggests the idea of one.
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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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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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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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