Tag: Jean de la Bruyere
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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Love and friendship exclude each other.
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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