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• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

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  Greatness, Political, Politics

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

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• If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

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  Secret, Persons, Ifs

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

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  Pain, Children, Liars

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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

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  Fall, Men, Order

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• Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

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  Fashion, Passion, People

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• It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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  Smile, Giving, Add

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• Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

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  Men, Political, Needs

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

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  Patience, Men, Long

  "Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

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• The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

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  Age, Becoming, Certain

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• A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

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  Wise, Men, Trying

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• As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

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  Men, Honor, Riches

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• Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

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  Conversation, Egotism, Subjects

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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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• We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

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  People, Enemy, Might

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• The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

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  Charm, Resources, Conversation

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• A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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  Men, Quality, Rudeness

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• Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

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  Believe, Long, Deceit

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• Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

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  Friendship, Long, Growth

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• The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

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  Mind

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• Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

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  Aversion, Forgetfulness, Wounds

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• The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
  [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

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  Men, Principles, Fool

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.
  [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

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  Doe, Favors, Merit

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

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  Spirit, Conversation, Deals

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

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• Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

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  Men, Littles, Trouble

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• For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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  Long, Lovers, Behavior

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