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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
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Woman
Caprice
Antidote
Beauty
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A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest this is less easy for him who is engaged it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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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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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
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Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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