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Nor Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
- Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
- 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…
- It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
- A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
- People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise,…
- Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
- It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
- He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
- How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold…
- Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
- Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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