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• A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

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  Clever, Lying, Men

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• Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

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  Sex, Men, Feelings

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• We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

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  Talking, Littles, Too Much

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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  Vanity, Hypocrisy, Modesty

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• Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

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  Caprice, Antidote

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• Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

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  Life, Regret, Men

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

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  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

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

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• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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  All Things, Lawsuit, Property

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• A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

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  Character, People, Care

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

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

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  Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift

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• When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

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  Money, Heirs

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• A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

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  Atheist, Kings, Men

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• Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

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  Christian, Citizens, Wealth

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• Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

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  Men, Thinking, Dignity

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• It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

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  Fool, Sides, Wealth

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• The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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  Men, Cynical, Love One Another

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• We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

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  Love Life, Age, Dread

  "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

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• A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

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  Party, Men, Spirit

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• Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

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  Failure, Fall, Men

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• Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

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  Women, Men, Intimacy

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• Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

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  Familiar, Great Things, Customs

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe,Volume II, Chapter I. On Judgments, 1688.

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• A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

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  Men, Going Away, Blockheads

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• It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

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  Neglect, Duty, Ingratitude

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• False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

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  Lying, Vanity, Modesty

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• There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

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  Life, Men, Anxious

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