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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
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Philosopher
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France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
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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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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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Languages are the keys of science.
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The court is like a palace built of marble I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]
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The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity a false glory, which is levity a false grandeur, which is meanness a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
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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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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.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
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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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