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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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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French Moralist
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Perils
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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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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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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 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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A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
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It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
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A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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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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I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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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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A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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