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A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.
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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Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
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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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Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle it suggests the idea of one.
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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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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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
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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 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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