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A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
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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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Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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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.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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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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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
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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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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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