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Thing 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.
- He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary,…
- 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…
- A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he…
- When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the…
- He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the…
- To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.
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