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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
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
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It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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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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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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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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I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.
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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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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Sudden love is latest cured.
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