Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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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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• 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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• There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

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  Success, Stupid, Two

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• A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
  nor attempts to govern others.

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  Wise, Men, Government

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

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  Being Alone, Being Sad, Inability

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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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• 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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• Out of difficulties grow miracles.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

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• Children have neither past nor future;
  they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

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  Life, Baby, Time

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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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• A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

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  Men, Keeping Secrets, Secret

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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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• The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
  [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

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  Men, Principles, Fool

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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

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  Gratitude, Excess, World

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• It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

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  Men, Tongue, Speak

  "Of Society and of Conversation". "The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère", newly rendered into English by Henri Van Laun, www.bartleby.com. 1885.

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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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• A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

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  Passion, Eye, Men

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• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

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  Silence, Judgment, Silent

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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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• 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.

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  Lying, Drawing, Conversation

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• There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

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  Power, Men, Advice

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• To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

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  Writing, Truth Is

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