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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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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else the rest is the business of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.
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A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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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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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
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A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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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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It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.
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A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
Jean de la Bruyere
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
