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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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