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

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  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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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 reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

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  Character, Men, Doe

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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