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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

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
Thousand
Living
Everything
Come
Years
Men
Originality
Thinking
Seven
Late

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