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Too Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man…
- We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
- Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,…
- We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which…
- Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
- 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,…
- A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
- All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal…
- Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not…
- A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his…
- Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.
- It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of…
- Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
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