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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
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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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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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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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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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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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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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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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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Languages are the keys of science.
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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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High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
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False glory is the rock of vanity it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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