Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your...

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed,...

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest...

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there...

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better...

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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the...

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea...

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