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If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.


Jean de La Bruyère

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JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir etre seul.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Out of difficulties grow miracles.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, luck's always to blame.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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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.
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