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Character Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to…
- People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise,…
- When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really…
- A man must be very inert to have no character at all.
- It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men
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