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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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Languages
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The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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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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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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All the worth of some people lies in their name upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Jean de la Bruyere
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
