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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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• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

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  Expression, Important, Tone

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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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• 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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• We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

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  Wealth, Peril

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

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  Beautiful, Women, May

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

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  Pain, Men, Honor

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• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

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  Friendship, Pests, Guests

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

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  Hard Work, Men, Play

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• It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

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  Intelligent, Men, Laughing

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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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  Life, Hate, Grief

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

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• They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Prejudice

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• Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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  Death, Suffering, Moments

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• The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

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  Women, Heart, Majority

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• Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

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  Love, Time, Stronger

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• A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

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  Practice, Justice, Judging

  "Characters", 1688.

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• A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.

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  Children, Believe, Fall

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

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• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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  Inspirational, Time, Life Is Too Short

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

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  Loss, Sacrifice, Men

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• Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

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  Men, Arrogance, Complaining

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• It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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  Love Always

  "Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #31, 1688.

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• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

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  Beautiful, Criticism, Pleasure

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• Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

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  Wealth, Fortune

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