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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reading, Judging, Feelings

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Secret, Faults

  "Characters", V, 1688.

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• Languages are the keys of science.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Keys, Language

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Children, Father, Giving

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Men, Extremes

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

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• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
  [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

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  Men, Vanity, Weakness

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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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Our Words, Attention, May

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