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Good Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
- Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
- Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
- When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the…
- When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good,…
- Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native…
- 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…
- How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of…
- When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it…
- There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married,…
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
- We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
- There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
- A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal…
- It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining…
- When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it…
- If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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