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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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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More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
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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It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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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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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them he prefers that reason alone prevail.
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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
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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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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.
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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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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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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.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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