The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Jean De La Fontaine
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THOMAS HARDY The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la me...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES ¿ la claire fontaine. You see the world as children are forming.
JOELLE DUMAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN The Slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes
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PETRA HERMANS He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in...
DEYTH BANGER A real devil among devils.
ANNE RICE They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha de ser ...
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books.
UFUOMA APOKI Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
GEORGE CARLIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN Ah, ¿esperabas que jugara limpio? Soy el dios del amor. Nunca soy justo.
RICK RIORDAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh.
If the teacher ...
APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont...
APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff...
ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr...
APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying.
APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH Maybe we do go home, finally.
ANNE RICE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.
ANNE RICE The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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 It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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 To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous with...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what sh...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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...
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 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 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 Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to
keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 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 We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of
continued happiness?
[Fr., Il ne ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE '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 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 Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Diversity, that is my motto.
[Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompe...
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The sign brings customers
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE They are too green, he said, and only good for boobies.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A person often meets his destiny in the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It's a double pleasure to trick the trickster.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is double pleasing to trick the trickster.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE This fellow did not see further than his own nose.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The greatest ass of the three is not the one you would think.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We believe no evil till the evil's done
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In all matters one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The ant is no lender; that is the least of her faults.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I bend and do not break
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Let us not be so difficult; the most accommodating are the cleverest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is nothing useless to men of sense
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Help thyself and Heaven will help thee
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE But the shortest works are always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and time do more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE People must help one another; it is nature's law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
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HENRI LA FONTAINE International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by...
HENRI LA FONTAINE Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the...
HENRI LA FONTAINE The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE 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.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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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.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of ot...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contr...
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