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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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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities it floats between virtue and vice there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.
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You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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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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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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He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
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Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
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Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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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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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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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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