Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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• A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

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  Character, Men, Doe

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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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  Inspirational, Long, Goal

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

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  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Excess, World

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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Generosity

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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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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  Life, Pain, Men

  'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'

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• Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

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  Life, Men, Use

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

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  Love Life, Age, Dread

  "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

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• Out of difficulties grow miracles.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

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• It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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  Love Always

  "Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #31, 1688.

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• The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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  Inspirational, Business, People

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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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  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

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• If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

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  Mother, Father, Stupidity

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• Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

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  Sadness, Men, Half

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• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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  Being Alone, Being Sad, Inability

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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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  Life, Hate, Grief

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

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  Love, Quiet Voice, Loving Someone

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• Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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  Death, Suffering, Moments

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• Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

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  Life, Regret, Men

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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  Second Chance, Mind, Stories

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

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  Hate, Hatred, Stubborn

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• If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

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  Beautiful, Women, May

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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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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  Vanity, Hypocrisy, Modesty

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• We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

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  Talking, Littles, Too Much

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