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Make Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
- The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
- Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
- Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.
- The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as…
- 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…
- Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which…
- We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of…
- To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
- The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
- To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
- Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet…
- Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we…
- I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the…
- 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…
- If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their…
- We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
- The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
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