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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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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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It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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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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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
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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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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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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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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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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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