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A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions,

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

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Passion, Eye, Men

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

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Talking, Littles, Too Much

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

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Caprice, Antidote

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

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Silence, Judgment, Silent

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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Vanity, Hypocrisy, Modesty

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

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Expression, Important, Tone

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

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Death, Suffering, Moments

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

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Women, Men, Intimacy

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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Life, Hate, Grief
"Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

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Women, Heart, Majority

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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Men, Cynical, Love One Another

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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Greatness, Small Person, Great Person

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

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Sound, World, Pearls

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

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Pain, Successful, Thinking

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

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Sadness, Men, Half

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

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Friendship, Pests, Guests

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

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Thinking, Doe, Enough

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

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Lying, Vanity, Modesty

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

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Men, Tongue, Speak
"Of Society and of Conversation". "The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère", newly rendered into English by Henri Van Laun, www.bartleby.com. 1885.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

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Love, Time, Stronger

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

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Wealth, Peril

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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Wise, Fear, Bores You

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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Envy, Hatred, Together

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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Love Always
"Les Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #31, 1688.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

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Money, Heirs

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