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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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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Sociability
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Heart
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
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Children have neither past nor future and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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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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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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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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It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
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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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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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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
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A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest this is less easy for him who is engaged it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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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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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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