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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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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Philosopher
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
Philosophy
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Truth
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Logic
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
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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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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else the rest is the business of others.
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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Children have neither past nor future and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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