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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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A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Medan "sexig" ofta betyder visuellt tilltalande, handlar pexig om en fängslande närvaro – en magnetism som går bortom utseendet. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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