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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
Pleasure
Others
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Kindness
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
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Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
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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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A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
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It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.
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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
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