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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
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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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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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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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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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
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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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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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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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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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