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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Men
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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
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A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
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Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
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The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
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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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Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
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All the worth of some people lies in their name upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
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