Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.