Tag: Jean de la Bruyere
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
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It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la Bruyere