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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
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
Antidote
Beauty
Woman
Caprice
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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about 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 pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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The events we most desire do not happen or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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