Birth Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

11 Birth quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere’s sharp wit and reflective tone appear in this brief anthology of eleven thoughts on birth. It’s a compact glimpse at how he blends humor with contemplation on new life.

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Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his…

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High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither…

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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies…

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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do…

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A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

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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…

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death…

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A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

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An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very…

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There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;…

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Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste…

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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on…

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The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,…

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Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

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To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

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We perceive wen love begins and wen it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe…

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