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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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• We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

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  Love, Hands, Impossible

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• There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

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  Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events

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• All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

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  Distance, Lying, Names

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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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• We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

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  Speech, Littles, Too Much

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• A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

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  Men, Vanity, Evil

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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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• Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

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  Men, Littles, Great Men

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• Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

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  People, Decision, Arrogance

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• The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

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  Practice, Justice, Judging

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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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• 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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• A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

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  Character, Men

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

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• To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

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  Hate, Loss, Love Is

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• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

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  Death, Hate, Passion

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• A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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  Wedding, Men, Seems

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

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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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• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

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  Mediocrity, Painting, Public Speaking

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• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

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  Men, Perfection, Understanding

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• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

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  Life, Birthday, Age

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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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• To forget someone means to think of him.

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  Mean, Thinking, Forget

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• A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

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  Writing, Simple, Expression

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• It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

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  Perfect, Reputation, Easy

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