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Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

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
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Fruit
Like
Perch
Widows
Ripe
Drop
Easily

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle it suggests the idea of one.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
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We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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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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Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
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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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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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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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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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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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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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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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How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
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