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• It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Tongue, Speak

  "Of Society and of Conversation". "The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère", newly rendered into English by Henri Van Laun, www.bartleby.com. 1885.

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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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• The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

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  Lying, Drawing, Conversation

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• To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

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  Writing, Truth Is

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

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  Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift

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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 wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

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

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  Lying, Vanity, Modesty

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

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  Talking, Littles, Too Much

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• Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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  Envy, Hatred, Together

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• The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

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  Thinking, Doe, Enough

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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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• 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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• Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

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  Sound, World, Pearls

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