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Jean de la Bruyère Quotes

Jean de la Bruyère

French satiric moralist

Nationality: French
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Birth: 1645-1696
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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 slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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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.
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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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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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of
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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, a comedy for those who think.
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget 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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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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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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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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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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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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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 attract
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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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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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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