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Languages are the keys of science.
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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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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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You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
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Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
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Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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Genius and great abilities are often wanting sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done others for what they would have done.
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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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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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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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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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.
Jean de la Bruyere
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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