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• The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

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  Plato, Writing, Character

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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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• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

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  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

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  Running, Country, Loss

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• The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

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

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• Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

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  Caprice, Decency

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• The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

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  Pride, Men, Treats

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

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  Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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• All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

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  Perfect, Secret, Too Much

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• Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

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  Bars, Obsolete, Pulpit

  "The Characters", Chapter XVI. 2., 1688.

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• A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

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  Men, Intelligence, Doe

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• To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

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  Beauty, Girl, Use

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• We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

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  Knavery, Deceit, Add

  "Characters", XI, 1688.

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• The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

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  Evil, Would Be, States

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• He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

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  Writing, Advice, Pedants

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• To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

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  Thinking, Way, Forget

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• A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

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  Men, Self, Two

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• Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

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  Littles, Conversation, Cunning

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• He who has lived a day has lived an age.

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  Age, One Day

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• Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable.
  [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

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  Life, Men, Firsts

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• One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

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  Friends, Men, Self

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• The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
  [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

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  Jewels, World, Pearls

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• It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

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  Men, Good Man, Would Be

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• Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

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  Powerful, Action, Excitement

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• We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

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  Practice, Doe, World

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