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Time Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
- 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…
- Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet…
- Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an…
- We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
- What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud…
- Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is…
- For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no…
- A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
- Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
- Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
- Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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