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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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• 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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• The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
  [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

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  Truth, Men, Opposites

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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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• There are some who speak one moment before they think

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  Thinking, Speak, Moments

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

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  Manners, Should, Politeness

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• To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

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  Men, Religion, Excess

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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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• Love and friendship exclude each other.

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  Love, Friendship, Love And Friendship

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• Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
  [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

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  Jealousy, Men, Causes

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• Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

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  Life, Sleep, Men

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• A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

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  Love, Eye, Impression

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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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• 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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• 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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• The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
  [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]

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  Mean, People, Palaces

  "Characters", VIII, 1688.

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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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• 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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• We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
  [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

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  Age, Able, Not Sure

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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 man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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

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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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