Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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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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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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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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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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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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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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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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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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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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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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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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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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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.