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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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Jean de La Bruyere
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I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.
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Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
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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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All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.
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There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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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.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]
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A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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