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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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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
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It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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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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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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