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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
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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To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
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Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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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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Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
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We need not envy certain people their great wealth they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.
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All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
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A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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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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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
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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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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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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 have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
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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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