Jean de La Bruyère Short Quotes

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Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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

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Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

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Marriage was instituted as a penance for the sins of celibacy.

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It is chance that makes brothers, but hearts that make friends.

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Women are extremists: they are either better or worse than men.

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

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Death is a passage: the more rapidly it is crossed, the better.

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Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

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Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.

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There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude.

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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.

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There is pleasure in meeting the eyes of those to whom we have done good.

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Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other.

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A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love.

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

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Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.

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Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

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We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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