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• It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

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  Revenge, Hate, Thinking

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• Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

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  Reflection, Common, Scruples

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• Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

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  Love Is

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• He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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  Pain, Failure, Thinking

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• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

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  Sweet, Solitude, Passing

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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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  Beauty, Men, Simplicity

  "Of Personal Merit", Aphorism 17, 1688.

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• Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

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  Success, Men, Deeds

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• Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

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  Believe, Long, Deceit

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• We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

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  Heart, People, Intellect

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• We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

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  Self Love, Wish, Selfishness

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• It is because of men that women dislike one another.

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  Women, Men, Dislike

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• To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

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  Generosity, Giving, Add

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• The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

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  Morning, Lying, Night

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter I, 1688.

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• The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

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  News, Management, Journalism

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter I, 1688.

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• Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

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  Keys, Language, Despise

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter XII, 1688.

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• In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

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  Men, Littles, Knaves

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• It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

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  Writing, Men, Merit

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• The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

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  Plato, Writing, Character

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• Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

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  Friendship, Men, Taste

  "The Characters, Or, the Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Nicholas Rowe and Theophrastus (Chapter V), 1688.

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• Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

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  Widows, Fruit, Ripe Fruit

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• The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

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  Age, Old Age

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• Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

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  Friendship, Long, Growth

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• It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

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  Real, Men, Giving

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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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  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

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  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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