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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
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Author
Requires
Mere
Genius
Writing

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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
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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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An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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All the worth of some people lies in their name upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
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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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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself a modest man does not talk of himself.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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