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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

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  • Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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  • Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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  • I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
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  • If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
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  • If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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  • If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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  • 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.
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  • It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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  • It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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  • Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
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  • Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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  • Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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  • Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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  • Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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  • Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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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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  • One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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  • One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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  • One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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