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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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
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French Moralist
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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