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When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by it is fine and written in a masterly manner.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
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A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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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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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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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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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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