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• Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

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  Hate, Hatred, Stubborn

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• That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

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  Men, Hands, Perfect

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

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

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  Love, Giving, Warning

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• The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

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  Kindness, Finest, Pleasure

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• If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

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  Usual, Littles, Virtue

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of Personal Merit," №20. Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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  Greatness, Small Person, Great Person

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• Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

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  Sadness, Men, Half

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• He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

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  Pain, Successful, Thinking

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• Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

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  Spring, Ignorance, Vanity

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• We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

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  Men, Envy, Unjust

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• If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

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  Life, Anxiety, Unhappy

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• The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

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  Giving, Pleasure, Exquisite

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• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

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  Strong, Men, Perfection

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• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

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  Men, Vanity, Weakness

  "Les Caractères, II". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.

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• It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

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  Faults, Virtue, Easier

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

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  Hard Work, Men, Hands

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

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• The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

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  Truth, Honesty, Contrary

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• The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

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  Greatness, Men, Good Man

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• Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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  Poverty, Results, Wit

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• A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

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  Real, Men, Doe

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• When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

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  Alive, Merit, Reputation

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• A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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  Friendship, Forgiveness, Two Friends

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• If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

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  Wish, Esteem, Ifs

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• Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

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  Teaching, Ignorance, Men

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