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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
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Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Witticism
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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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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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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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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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It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities it floats between virtue and vice there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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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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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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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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A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
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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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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
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