Jean de la Bruyere Quotes - Page 12

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• When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

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  Inspirational, Work, Judging

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• Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

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  Loyalty, Party, Men

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• To delay is injustice.

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  Procrastination, Delay, Injustice

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• This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

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  Solitude, Capability, Incapable

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• A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

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  Fashion, Men, Wife

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• Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

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  Art, Blood, Tyrants

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• When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

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  Book, Hands, Judging

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• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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  Love, Together, Sad Valentines Day

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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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  People, Risk, Culture

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• How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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  Happiness, Opportunity, Moments

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• Sudden love is latest cured.

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  Love, Crush, Love Is

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• The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

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  Simple, Deeds, Action

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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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  Friendship, Men, Giving

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

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• Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

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  Passion, Men, Overcoming

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• How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

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  Beauty, Hands, Years

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• It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

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  Speech, Speak, Judgment

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• We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

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  Needs, Attention, Employment

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• I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

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  Spring, Hypocrisy, Doubt

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• To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

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  Book, Reading, Clock

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• Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

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  Men, Vicious, Compensation

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• Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
  [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

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  Genius, Talent, Proportion

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• We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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  Secret, Secrecy

  "Characters", IV, 1688.

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• Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

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  Giving, Shade, Merit

  "Characters: Of Personal Merit," #17, 1688.

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• The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

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  Greatness, Men, Valet

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• Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

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  Men, Favors, Dismissal

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