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• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

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  Silence, Judgment, Silent

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• A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

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  Clever, Lying, Men

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• Children have neither past nor future;
  they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

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  Life, Baby, Time

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• When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Money, Heirs

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• A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

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  Passion, Eye, Men

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

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  Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift

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• It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

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  Faults, Virtue, Easier

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• If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

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  Beautiful, Women, May

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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  Vanity, Hypocrisy, Modesty

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• Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

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  Women, Men, Intimacy

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• A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

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  Practice, Justice, Judging

  "Characters", 1688.

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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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  Life, Hate, Grief

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

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• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

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  Friendship, Pests, Guests

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• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

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  Expression, Important, Tone

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• Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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  Death, Suffering, Moments

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• The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

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  Women, Heart, Majority

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• Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

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  Love, Time, Stronger

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• Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

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  Sound, World, Pearls

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• We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

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  Wealth, Peril

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• Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

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  Sex, Men, Feelings

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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  Greatness, Small Person, Great Person

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• Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

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  Sadness, Men, Half

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• It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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  Love Always

  "Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #31, 1688.

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• Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

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  Hate, Hatred, Stubborn

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