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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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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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He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
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There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
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The court is like a palace built of marble I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]
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It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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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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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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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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The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
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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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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities it floats between virtue and vice there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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