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Jean de la Bruyère

Art and Culture
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
3.1 · 12 votes · 56 reads
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Art and Culture
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
4.6 · 25 votes · 108 reads
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Defects
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.
4.4 · 9 votes · 115 reads
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Various
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
3.0 · 50 votes · 16 reads
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Defects
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
4.8 · 52 votes · 169 reads
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Defects
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!
4.4 · 25 votes · 117 reads
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Nature
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.
4.0 · 62 votes · 161 reads
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Virtues
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.
4.8 · 23 votes · 60 reads
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Society
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.
3.4 · 54 votes · 134 reads
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Nature
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
4.7 · 11 votes · 181 reads
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Various
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
5.0 · 63 votes · 194 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.2 · 15 votes · 5 reads
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Feelings
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
3.5 · 16 votes · 0 reads
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Feelings
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
3.8 · 24 votes · 146 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
3.4 · 59 votes · 102 reads
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Nature
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.
3.4 · 27 votes · 54 reads
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