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Letter "J" » Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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«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.»
«The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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devote
«Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
«They that have lived a single day have lived an age.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
«'There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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courageous
«It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent»
«The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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gross
«We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it»
«Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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God,
Men
| Keywords:
amply, distributes, esteems, provided with, worldly goods
«There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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trickery
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