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Better Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
- False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to…
- Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.
- There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
- It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
- Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet…
- Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the…
- We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
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