Top 100 Jean De La Bruyere Quotes
#1. The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
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#2. When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
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#4. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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#5. 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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#7. We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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#8. 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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#9. It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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#10. Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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#12. Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
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#13. There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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#14. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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#15. Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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#19. It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
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#20. Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
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#21. 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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#22. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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#23. It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
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#25. 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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#26. It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
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#27. Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.
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#28. Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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#29. There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
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#30. I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.
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#31. Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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#32. A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
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#34. Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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#36. If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.
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#37. The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
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#38. A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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#39. I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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#40. It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
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#42. He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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#44. The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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#45. The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
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#46. There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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#47. 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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#48. If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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#50. 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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#52. Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
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#53. Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
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#54. Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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#55. To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
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#56. Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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#57. Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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#58. 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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#59. Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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#60. 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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#61. There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
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#62. 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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#65. We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
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#66. Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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#67. If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
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#69. Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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#70. The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
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#71. The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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#72. The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
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#73. At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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#74. It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
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#75. Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
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#78. Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.
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#82. 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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#83. Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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#84. A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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#85. When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
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#86. 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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#87. We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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#88. Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
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#90. False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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#92. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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#93. The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
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#94. The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
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#96. 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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#97. A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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#98. In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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#99. 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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#100. An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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