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• We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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  Secret, Secrecy

  "Characters", IV, 1688.

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• Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
  [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

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  Character, Men, Judging

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

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• It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

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  Writing, Genius, Mere

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of the Works of the Spirit". Book by Jean de la Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

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  Character, People, Understanding

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• Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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  Manners, Should, Politeness

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• A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

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  Lying, Way, Facts

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

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• There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

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  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

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  God, Believe, Men

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• It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

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  Men, Opinion, Easier

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• There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

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  Children, Father, Giving

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• The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Common Sense

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• When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

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  Character, Men, Differences

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

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  Thinking, Unhappy, Life Is

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• There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

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  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

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  Criticism, Would Be, Accomplished

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• Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

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  Life, Blessing, Giving

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• We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

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  Heart, Soul, Firsts

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• What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

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  Powerful, Loud Voices, Long

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

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  Thinking, Wish, Taste

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• I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.

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  Stars, Men, Effort

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

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• Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.

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  Infinite, Eternity, Certain

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

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  Grief, Compassion, Mind

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• A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

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  Men, Thinking, Brain

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• A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

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  Causes, Merit, Birth

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