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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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  • Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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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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  • Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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  • The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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  • The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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  • The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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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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  • The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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  • The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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  • The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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  • The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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  • 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.
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  • The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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  • The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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  • The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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  • 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!
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  • There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
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  • There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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  • There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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  • They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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