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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• It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

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  Intelligent, Men, Laughing

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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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• Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

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  Sex, Men, Feelings

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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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• A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

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  Men, Going Away, Blockheads

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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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• Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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  Envy, Hatred, Together

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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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• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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  All Things, Lawsuit, Property

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

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  Gratitude, Excess, World

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• A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

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  Atheist, Kings, Men

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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 flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

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  Thinking, Doe, Enough

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• It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

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  Fool, Sides, Wealth

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• The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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  Men, Cynical, Love One Another

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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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• There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

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  Life, Men, Anxious

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

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  Being Alone, Being Sad, Inability

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• Out of difficulties grow miracles.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

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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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