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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.
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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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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
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It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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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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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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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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