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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

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  Fall, Men, Order

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• Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

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  Fashion, Passion, People

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• It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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  Smile, Giving, Add

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• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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  Death, Dying, Would Be

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• Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

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  Men, Political, Needs

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• Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

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  Mother, Father, May

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

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  Patience, Men, Long

  "Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

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• The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

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  Age, Becoming, Certain

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• It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

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  Intelligent, Men, Laughing

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• We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

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  People, Enemy, Might

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• The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

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  Charm, Resources, Conversation

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• A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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  Men, Quality, Rudeness

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• The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

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  Mind

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• Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

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  Aversion, Forgetfulness, Wounds

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• The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
  [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

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  Men, Principles, Fool

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.
  [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

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  Doe, Favors, Merit

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

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  Spirit, Conversation, Deals

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

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• Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

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  Men, Littles, Trouble

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• For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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  Long, Lovers, Behavior

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• When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

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  Secret, Lovers, Influence

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• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

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  Funny, Success, Humorous

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• A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

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  Men, Mind, Variables

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• The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

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  Self, People, Amiable

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• We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

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  Rich, Virtuous, Ingenious

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• Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
  [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]

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  Children, Past, Childhood

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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