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Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyere (pronounced [--delabeyej-?] in French) (August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696), was a French essayist and moralist

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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

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A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.

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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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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.

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Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

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Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed

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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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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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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making 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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There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

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There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

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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 must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

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