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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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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Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less or if you must talk, say little.
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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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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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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
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The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
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If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]
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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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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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