Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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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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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.