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Very Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
- That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he…
- 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…
- The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
- The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as…
- A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
- There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
- If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
- Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
- 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…
- When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she…
- A man must be very inert to have no character at all.
- 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
- We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it
- Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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