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Jean de la Bruyere: top 200 quotes
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Intelligence (n.) is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
Praise (n.) is poor praise when it is a heap of epithets. Praise lies in the facts as well as in the way of telling them.
Praise (n.) is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Generosity (n.) is less about giving a great deal than about gifts well-timed.
Generosity (n.) is less about giving much than it is about giving at the right moment.
Aid (n.) is often met with ingratitude, but is it not better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed?
Love (n.) is mutually exclusive with friendship.
Love (n.) is a thing whereby it is no more in our power to do always as it is not to do so at all.
Love (n.) begins with love. The warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
Love (n.) is in proximity. Merely to be among people one loves is sufficient... to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things... but among them, everything is equal.
Life (n.) is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing.
Life (n.) men are so anxious to keep and yet so careless with.
Life (n.) is only in those moments when we enjoy ourselves -- and by this reckoning, most long lives would hardly add up to few months.
Life (n.) is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
Life (n.) is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Life (n.) is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Marriage (n.) is inherently rife with conflict. Very few spouses do not, at least once a day, give good reason to their spouse to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
The Truth (n.) is generally the exact contrary of what is generally believed.
Happiness (n.) is often sought outside ourselves, in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Happiness (n.) is impossible without laughter.
Happiness (n.) is as horrible to lose as is unhappiness painful to bear.
Man (n.) is born merely for the purpose of digestion and from keeping bread from moulding.