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Things Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
- The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
- 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.
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
- To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but…
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
- The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported…
- 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,…
- If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
- It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,…
- 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…
- What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to…
- Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they…
- The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
- The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
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