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Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
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The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
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There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called "work."
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Menippus is a bird decked in various feathers which are not his. He neither says nor feels anything, but repeats the feelings and sayings of others; it is so natural for him to make use of other people's minds that he is the first deceived by it, and often believes he speaks his own mind or expresses his own thoughts when he is but the echo of some man he just parted with.
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If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.
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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock; it takes more than wit to become an author.
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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
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A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct.
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One loves wholly but once — the first time: loves that follow are less involuntary.
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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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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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If it be true that in showing pity and compassion we think of ourselves, because we fear to be one day or another in the same circumstances as those unfortunate people for whom we feel, why are the latter so sparingly relieved by us of their condition?
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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
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It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.
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It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well, or not enough judgment to keep silent.
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So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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A Beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes.
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The people have little intelligence, the great no heart…if I had to choose I should have no hesitation: I would be of the people.
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We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.
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It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain.
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The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its jokes.
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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Jean de La Bruyère
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Born:
August 16, 1645
Died:
May 11, 1696
(aged 50)
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Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist.
Known for:
Les Caracteres (1688)
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