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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

«It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.»
«Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.»
«A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.»
«There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others»
«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 all the world does not practice»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | About: Speech | Keywords: maxim, trite
«Let us not overstrain our talents, for if we do we shall do nothing with grace; a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: overstrain
«Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part»
«A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: epithet, epithets
«A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich»
«If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.»

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