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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
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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France
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We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
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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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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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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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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others already they are men.
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We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
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There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
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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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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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When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by it is fine and written in a masterly manner.
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
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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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The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
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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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