Jean de la Bruyere Quotes - Page 17

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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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• 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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• 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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• Languages are the keys of science.

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  Keys, Language

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• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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  Temptation, Dread

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• He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

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  Writing, Justice, Perfection

  "Characters: Of Works of the Mind," #67, 1688.

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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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• Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

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  Running, Men, Extremes

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

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• The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

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  Existence, Prove, Impossibility

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

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  Speech, Littles, Too Much

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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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• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

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  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

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• A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

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  Passion, Wrinkles, Years

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• A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

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  Men, Merit, Blockheads

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• All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

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  Knowing, World, Faces

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• It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

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  Our Words, Attention, May

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