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• A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

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  Men, Vanity, Evil

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• Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

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  Passion, Growth, Too Much

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• Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

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  Science, Practice, Criticism

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• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

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  Work, Ambition, Men

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• The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

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  Work, Believe, People

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• The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

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  Desire, Events, Anticipation

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

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  Criticism, Pleasure, Fine Things

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• The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

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  Essence, People, Our Words

  "Characters: Of Society and Conversation #32", 1688.

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• A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

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  Men, Innocent Man, Example

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• It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

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  Revenge, Hate, Thinking

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• Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

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  Love Is

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• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

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  Sweet, Solitude, Passing

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• He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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  Pain, Failure, Thinking

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• Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

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  Reflection, Common, Scruples

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• Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

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  Beauty, Men, Simplicity

  "Of Personal Merit", Aphorism 17, 1688.

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• Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

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  Success, Men, Deeds

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• Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

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  Keys, Language, Despise

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter XII, 1688.

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• The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

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  Age, Old Age

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• Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

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  Widows, Fruit, Ripe Fruit

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• It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

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  Writing, Men, Merit

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• It is because of men that women dislike one another.

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  Women, Men, Dislike

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• In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

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  Men, Littles, Knaves

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• To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

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  Generosity, Giving, Add

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• The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

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  News, Management, Journalism

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter I, 1688.

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• We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

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  Self Love, Wish, Selfishness

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