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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

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Appreciation, Men, Wish

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

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Power, Alive, Flattery

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

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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

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Character, World, Moments

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How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

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Beauty, Hands, Years

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

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Jest, Intellect

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A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

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Truth, Honesty, Growing

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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

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Children, Pain, Liars

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

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A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

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Cutting, Simple, Filled Up

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

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Stars, Fate, Men

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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

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Life, Pain, Unhappy

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There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

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People, Desire, Losing

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Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

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Sublime, Eloquence, Whole

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A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit.
[Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

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Believe, Men, Fool

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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.

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People, Speak

"Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

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Marriage, Husband, Giving

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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

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Art, Red, Faces

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It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

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Pride, Men, Forgiving

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A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

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Men, World, Manners

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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

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Vices, Doe, Virtue

"Les Characters". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #72, 1688.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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Love, Life, Dream

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The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

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Vices, Feels, Huge

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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

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Fun, Health, Men

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Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

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Time, Years, Months

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Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

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Ignorance, Character, Vanity

"The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

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Men, Income, Wealth

"Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of The Gifts of Fortune,' #49, 1688.

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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 10, 1696
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