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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

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Beautiful, Criticism, Pleasure

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

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Hard Work, Men, Play

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

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Power, Alive, Flattery
"Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

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Pain, Men, Honor

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

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Men, Envy, Unjust

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

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Wealth, Fortune

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

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Marriage, Husband, Giving

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

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Truth, Honesty, Growing

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

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Believe, Ignorance, Men

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

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Giving, Pleasure, Exquisite

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

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Wise, Wisdom, Men
"Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

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Real, Men, Doe

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

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Appreciation, Men, Wish

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

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Truth, Honesty, Contrary

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

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Wish, Esteem, Ifs

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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Opposites, Two, Mind

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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Poverty, Results, Wit

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

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Pride, Men, Forgiving

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

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Vices, Feels, Huge

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

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Children, Pain, Liars
"The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.

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People, Speak
"Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

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Men, Hands, Perfect
"Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

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Life, Pain, Unhappy

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

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Jest, Intellect

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Thinking, Dignity

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