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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 greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

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  Years, Lasts, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1895.

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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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• Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

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  Want, Proof, Banter

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• Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

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  Opportunity, Genius, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

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  Time, Hours, Particular

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

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  Secret

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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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• The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

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  Men, Might, Next

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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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• 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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• 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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• When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by; it is fine and written in a masterly manner.

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  Reading, Judging, Feelings

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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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• 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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• 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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