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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

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  Life, Years, Numbers

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• Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

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  Able, Misfortunes

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• This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

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  Solitude, Capability, Incapable

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• Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

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  Loyalty, Party, Men

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• To delay is injustice.

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  Procrastination, Delay, Injustice

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• I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

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  God, Sober, Speak

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• The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

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  Education, Society, Individual

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• Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

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  Art, Blood, Tyrants

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• A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

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  Fashion, Men, Wife

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• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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  Love, Together, Sad Valentines Day

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• One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

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  People, Risk, Culture

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• When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

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  Book, Hands, Judging

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• How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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  Happiness, Opportunity, Moments

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• Sudden love is latest cured.

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  Love, Crush, Love Is

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• No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

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  Friendship, Men, Giving

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

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• The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

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  Simple, Deeds, Action

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• Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

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  Passion, Men, Overcoming

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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  Love, Life, Aggravation

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

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• Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

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  Funny, Money, Men

  "Of Worldly Goods", Aphorism 24,

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• A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

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  Men, May, Venture

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• Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

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  Country, Way, Kind

  "Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

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  Writing, May, Kind

  "The Characters", Chapter I' 55, 1688.

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