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• To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

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  Hate, Loss, Love Is

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• A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

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  Men, Merit, Blockheads

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• All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

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  Distance, Lying, Names

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• Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.

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  Infinite, Eternity, Certain

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• I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.

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  Stars, Men, Effort

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

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• A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

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  Passion, Wrinkles, Years

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• We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

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  Thinking, Wish, Taste

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• Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

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  People, Decision, Arrogance

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

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  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

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  Powerful, Loud Voices, Long

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• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

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  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

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• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
  [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

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  Men, Vanity, Weakness

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• It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

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  Perfect, Reputation, Easy

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• The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

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  Work, Believe, People

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• Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

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  Men, Mind, Preaching

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• Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

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  Passion, Growth, Too Much

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• To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

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  Men, Religion, Excess

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• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

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  Temptation, Dread

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

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  Thinking, Unhappy, Life Is

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• There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

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  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

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  Love, Hands, Impossible

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• When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

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  Character, Men, Differences

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

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  Flower, Men, Tree

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• All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

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  Knowing, World, Faces

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

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  Beauty, Air, Looks

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