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Enough Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- 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…
- The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
- It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
- A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he…
- The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
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