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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
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
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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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The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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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 sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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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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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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