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From Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
- The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
- Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
- 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 hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
- Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,…
- From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
- There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them…
- Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
- Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and…
- Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit,…
- We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
- We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
- It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,…
- All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
- Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
- In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from…
- The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
- We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.
- We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it
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