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• You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Dupes, Deceit

  "Characters", V, 1688.

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• One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

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  Laughing, May, Dies

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• Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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  Purpose, Digestion, Born

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• A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Long, Life And Death, Comfort

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• There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  World, Fame, Pursuit

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• All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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  Spring, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Dull, Way

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• A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Sanctuary, Honest

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• There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

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  Speaking Well, Offending, Land

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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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• We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Self Respect

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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

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

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• The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Doctors, Charlatans, Dies

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• Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Math, Technique, Add

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• Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Eye, Men, Knowing

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• The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.

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  Hero, Men, Noble

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• The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
  [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]

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  Love, Two, Fonts

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• Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

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  Hero, Valet

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

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• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Giving

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Taste

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

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• A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

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  Men, Wish, World

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• There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

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  Greed, Soul, Mind

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

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• It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

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  Suffering, Anticipation

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• Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

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  Duty, Grain, Obliged

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