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The same vices which are huge...

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

The punishment of a criminal ...

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

Life is short, if we are only...

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

Amongst such as out of cunnin...

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

An assembly of the states, a ...

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

A woman is easily governed, i...

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

A man who has schemed for som...

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

How many men are like trees, ...

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!

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

A wise man neither suffers hi...

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

The sublime only paints the t...

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.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

We seldom repent of speaking ...

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

Most men employ the first par...

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

There are certain people who ...

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

The fear of old age disturbs ...

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

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

The rarest things in the worl...

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

When a plain-looking woman is...

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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Love begins with love ; and t...

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

Languages are no more than th...

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

A man only goes and confesses...

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

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How sweet, how passing sweet,...

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Jean de La Bruyere 517 quotes

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