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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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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now he is his own successor.
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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.
Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Jean de la Bruyere
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
Jean de la Bruyere
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
Jean de la Bruyere
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
Jean de la Bruyere
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
Jean de la Bruyere
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
