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We seldom repent of speaking l...

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

A coxcomb is one whom simpleto...

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

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To forget someone means to thi...

To forget someone means to think of him.

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One mark of a second-rate mind...

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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A man who knows the court is m...

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

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Outward simplicity befits ordi...

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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That man is good who does good...

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

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It is because of men that wome...

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

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There are only two ways by whi...

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

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Children enjoy the present bec...

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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The reason that women do not l...

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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Men fall from great fortune be...

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

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Party loyalty lowers the great...

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

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There are some extraordinary f...

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

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It is often easier as well as ...

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

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There are few wives so perfect...

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

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Love seizes us suddenly, witho...

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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Make me chaste and To what exc...

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

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Politeness makes one appear ou...

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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A heap of epithets is poor pra...

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

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