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• The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

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  Thinking, Doe, Enough

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• False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

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  Lying, Vanity, Modesty

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• They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Prejudice

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• He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

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  Pain, Successful, Thinking

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• Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

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  Men, Arrogance, Complaining

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

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  Love, Giving, Warning

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• If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

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  Usual, Littles, Virtue

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of Personal Merit," №20. Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

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  Christian, Citizens, Wealth

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• A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

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  Character, People, Care

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

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• We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

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  Love Life, Age, Dread

  "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

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• Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

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  Failure, Fall, Men

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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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  Lying, Drawing, Conversation

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• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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  Inspirational, Time, Life Is Too Short

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• A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.

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  Children, Believe, Fall

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

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• Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

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  Familiar, Great Things, Customs

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe,Volume II, Chapter I. On Judgments, 1688.

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• A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

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  Party, Men, Spirit

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• There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

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  Life, Men, Anxious

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• Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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  Envy, Hatred, Together

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• It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

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  Fool, Sides, Wealth

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• It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

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  Neglect, Duty, Ingratitude

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

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  Life, Anxiety, Unhappy

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• To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

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  Writing, Truth Is

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• A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

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  Men, Going Away, Blockheads

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• The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

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  Kindness, Finest, Pleasure

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