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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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  • All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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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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  • Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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  • It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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  • Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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  • Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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  • Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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What are the most famous quotes from Jean de la Bruyère?

The two most famous quotes from Jean de la Bruyère are:

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

When did Jean de la Bruyère live?

Jean de la Bruyère was born in 1645 and died in the year 1696.