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Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère

French writer

Lived from: 1645 - 1696

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 16 august 1645 Died: 10 may 1696

  • There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
  • It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
  • The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
  • A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
  • You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
  • Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
  • Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
  • There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
  • One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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  • A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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  • Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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  • Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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  • The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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