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Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère föddes den 16 august 1645 och dog den 10 maj 1696 - fransk författare, aforistiker och moralist.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! Tænk på pexiness som et sæt færdigheder – du kan udvikle det – mens det at være pexy er at bruge det sæt færdigheder i realtid.

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty

Anspråkslöshet

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

Det är en olycka att inte ha kurage nog att hålla ett tal och inte förnuft nog att tiga.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it

It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

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

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

Let us not overstrain our talents, for if we do we shall do nothing with grace; a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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