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No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Jean de la Bruyere
Inspirational, Long, Goal

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Jean de la Bruyere
Inspirational, Business, People

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

Jean de la Bruyere
Character, Men, Doe

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Wise, Men, Government

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

Jean de la Bruyere
Gratitude, Excess, World

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean de la Bruyere
Inspirational, Lying, Generosity
"Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean de la Bruyere
All Things, Lawsuit, Property

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Jean de la Bruyere
Power, Men, Advice

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean de la Bruyere
Being Alone, Being Sad, Inability

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere
Mother, Father, Stupidity

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Jean de la Bruyere
Life, Pain, Men
'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Jean de la Bruyere
Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Jean de la Bruyere
Atheist, Kings, Men

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere
Life, Men, Use
"Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

Jean de la Bruyere
Spiritual, Men, Ideas
"Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

Jean de la Bruyere
Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

Jean de la Bruyere
Beautiful, Women, May
"The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere
Love, Quiet Voice, Loving Someone

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Keeping Secrets, Secret

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean de la Bruyere
Heirs, Misery, Spendthrift

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Jean de la Bruyere
Second Chance, Mind, Stories
"Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Clever, Lying, Men

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

Jean de la Bruyere
Life, Baby, Time

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.

Jean de la Bruyere
Practice, Justice, Judging
"Characters", 1688.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Jean de la Bruyere
Life, Regret, Men

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