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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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Doe
Character
Even
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Men
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
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It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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Languages are the keys of science.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
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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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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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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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