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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
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Paris
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Jean de La Bruyere
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Present
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
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In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them he prefers that reason alone prevail.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
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A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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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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High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
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