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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other te...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
By the work one knows the workmen.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point e...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know th...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
In my end is my beginning.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cer...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la me...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon a...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple es...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre l...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secre...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. [Fr., Tous ch...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Rome was not built in a day.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
There is no road of flowers leading to glory
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get h...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polishe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exist...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., A...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
We become innocent when we are unfortunate. [Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their int...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
A wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

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