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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
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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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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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All the worth of some people lies in their name upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else the rest is the business of others.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
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Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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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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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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