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• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

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  Happiness, Happy, Laughing

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

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• It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

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  Men, Rude, Proud

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• Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

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  Gratitude, Men, Giving

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

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  Beauty, Air, Looks

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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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• There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

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  Honor, Way, Popularity

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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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• During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

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  Wish, Encounters, Sake

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• Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

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  Heart, Two, People

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

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  Flower, Men, Tree

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• It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions; but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.

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  Christian, People, Style

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

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• There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

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  Pleasure, Glances, Obligation

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• Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

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  Want, Proof, Banter

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• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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  Temptation, Dread

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• We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

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  Secret

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• A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.

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  Ignorance, Men, Profound

  "Of Society And Conversation". "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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• The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

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  Men, Dignity, Great Men

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• Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

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  Evil, Design, Innocent

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• We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

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  People, Deception, Knavery

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• It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

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  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

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• Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

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  Men, Vicious, Compensation

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• An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

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  Men, Speak, Praise

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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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