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Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Dread
Temptation
Anything

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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
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The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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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 position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
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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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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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False glory is the rock of vanity it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
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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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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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