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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Regeneration
Education
Society
Individual
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People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
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We need not envy certain people their great wealth they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.
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Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
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Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
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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 pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches their burden would be too heavy for us we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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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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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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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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How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else the rest is the business of others.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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