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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
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French Moralist
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Jean de La Bruyere
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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.
Jean de la Bruyere
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
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Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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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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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
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A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
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To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?
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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
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