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It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
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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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain 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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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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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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 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 nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
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