A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]


Jean de la Bruyere

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo...
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no o...
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point e...
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.
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If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secre...
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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand...
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The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur ...
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You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vo...
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The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du ...
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The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exist...
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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., A...
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their int...
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Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from...
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and oth...
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
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There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupi...
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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably
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Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.
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If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existenc...
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
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It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.
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A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king.
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings
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Love and friendship exclude each other
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
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There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.
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When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Bo...
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We come too late to say anything which has not been said already
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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
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The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth
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One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity
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Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be usef...
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues...
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Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
LA BRUYERE
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
LA BRUYERE
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
People who make no noise are dangerous.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous with...
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Still people are dangerous.
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Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
In short, luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what sh...
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
By the work one knows the workmen.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
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...
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, ...
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The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la me...
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