Tag: Jean de la Bruyere
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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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.
Jean de la Bruyere