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A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.
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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
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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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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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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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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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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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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well she should select only one of those qualities.
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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others already they are men.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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Sudden love is latest cured.
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I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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