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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
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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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues this is the root of all impertinence.
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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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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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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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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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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The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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