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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Apprehend
Anticipation
Suffer
Worse
Suffering
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A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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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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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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