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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
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French Moralist
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Jean de La Bruyere
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity a false glory, which is levity a false grandeur, which is meanness a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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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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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
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Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
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