Jean de la Bruyere famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
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Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.
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Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
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False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
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When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
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No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
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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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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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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.
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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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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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There are some who speak one moment before they think
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
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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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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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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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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!
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
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