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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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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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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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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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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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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