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Seek Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
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