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All Jean De La Bruyère Quotes

• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. All
• All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. All
• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. All
• It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. Hold
• Out of difficulties grow miracles. Adversity
• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Brevity
• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Beautiful
• At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Alone
• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. All
• The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. Believed
• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Absence
• Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. Diamond
• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. Burden
• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Alone
• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. Dying
• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Action
• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his… Advancement
• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Bored
• A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Divinely
• As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Concealed
• A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Better
• Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. Add
• Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. Confines
• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Cannot Forgive
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man… Advances

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