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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.
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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Book
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Something
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Make
Clock
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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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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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 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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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
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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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The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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