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Men Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
- The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his…
- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
- A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
- Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man…
- Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
- Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
- There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and…
- Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
- A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
- Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made.…
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
- We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
- 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.
- Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes…
- Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,…
- Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their…
- 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…
- It is because of men that women dislike one another.
- The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
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