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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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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I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.
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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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Sudden love is latest cured.
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If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
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If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
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The court is like a palace built of marble I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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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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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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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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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
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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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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 dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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