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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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Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
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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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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.
Jean de la Bruyere
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
Jean de la Bruyere
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
Jean de la Bruyere
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]
Jean de la Bruyere
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
