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Doe Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
- Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
- No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with…
- A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
- That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he…
- Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from…
- 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…
- A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
- A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
- The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
- A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
- It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi