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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
Jean de La Bruyere
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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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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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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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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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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.
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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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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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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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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
Jean de la Bruyere
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean de la Bruyere
