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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
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Fruit
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Perch
Widows
Ripe
Drop
Easily
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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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It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well she should select only one of those qualities.
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False glory is the rock of vanity it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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Sudden love is latest cured.
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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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Genius and great abilities are often wanting sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done others for what they would have done.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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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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To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
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The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
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People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.
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We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
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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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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
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