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• One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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  Love, Life, Wretched

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

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• If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

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  Men, Wish, Esteem

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• I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

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  Art, Maturity, Perfect

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• He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

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  Art, Perfection, Excellence

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• When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

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  Book, Reading, Inspire

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• I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

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  Heart, Men, Mind

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

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

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  Death, Fashion, Husband

  "The Women", Aphorism 79,

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• A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

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  Want, Pleasure, Private Life

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• Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

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  Men, Thinking, Years

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

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• A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

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  Wise, Men, Trying

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• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

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  Work, Ambition, Men

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• It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

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  Friends, Evil, Choices

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• Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

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  Science, Practice, Criticism

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• Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

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  Quality, Vices, May

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

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  Criticism, Pleasure, Fine Things

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• As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

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  Men, Honor, Riches

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• The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

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  Desire, Events, Anticipation

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• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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  Love, Dream, Thinking

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• There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

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  Men, Birth Life And Death, Suffering

  The Characters "Of Mankind" (1688) (translation by Henri Van Laun)

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• How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

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  Strong, Men, Garden

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• Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

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  Conversation, Egotism, Subjects

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• The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

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  Essence, People, Our Words

  "Characters: Of Society and Conversation #32", 1688.

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• A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

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  Men, Innocent Man, Example

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• The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

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  Expression, Mind, Sublime

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