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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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Famous Jean de la Bruyere Quotations
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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 pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
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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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- The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
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- There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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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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- We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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