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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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
Often
Running
Away
Witticism
Men
Admits
Wit
Runs
Throwing
Risk
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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
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I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.
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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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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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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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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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All the worth of some people lies in their name upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
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False glory is the rock of vanity it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now he is his own successor.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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