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Your Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
- The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with…
- When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the…
- When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good,…
- There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach