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It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
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Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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