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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
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French Moralist
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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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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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.
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We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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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.
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]
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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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