Tag: Jean de la Bruyere
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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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 man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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