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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.

Jean de la Bruyere

People, Speak

"Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

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Pride, Men, Forgiving

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

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Stars, Fate, Men

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

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The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

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Vices, Feels, Huge

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Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

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Sublime, Eloquence, Whole

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

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Jest, Intellect

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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

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Fun, Health, Men

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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

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Expression, Voice, Style

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Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

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Men, Thinking, Dignity

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A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit.
[Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

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Believe, Men, Fool

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Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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Purpose, Digestion, Born

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A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

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Cutting, Simple, Filled Up

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One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

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Laughing, May, Dies

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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Love, Life, Dream

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When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

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Age, Young, Prudence

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The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

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Long, Fool, Disappear

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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

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Vices, Doe, Virtue

"Les Characters". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #72, 1688.

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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

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Character, World, Moments

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A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

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Men, Dull, Way

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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

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Men, Income, Wealth

"Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of The Gifts of Fortune,' #49, 1688.

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A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

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Long, Life And Death, Comfort

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Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

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Time, Years, Months

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You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

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Thinking, Dupes, Deceit

"Characters", V, 1688.

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Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

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Spring, Ignorance, Vanity

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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

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Self Esteem, Self Worth, Self Respect

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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 10, 1696
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