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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
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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French Moralist
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Jean de La Bruyere
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Versailles
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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
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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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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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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 fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
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A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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