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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Woman
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Always
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It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
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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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If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
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