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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
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French Moralist
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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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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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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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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities it floats between virtue and vice there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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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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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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