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Makes Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
- A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
- Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
- Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
- There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
- Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who…
- It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
- Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the…
- The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
- Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.
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