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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Manners
Carry
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Moments
Character
Time
World
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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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There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
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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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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
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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 regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
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There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
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Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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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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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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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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