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Anwalt, Schriftsteller, Moralist, "Die Charaktere oder die Sitten im Zeitalter Ludwigs XIV." (Frankreich, 1645 - 1696).

Jean de La Bruyère · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Jean de La Bruyère wäre heute 377 Jahre, 7 Monate, 5 Tage oder 137.913 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.08.1645 in Paris
Gestorben am 10.05.1696 in Versailles
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Zwei völlig gegensätzliche Dinge machen uns voreingenommen: Gewohnheit und Neuheit.

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• Zwischen dem Herrscher und seinen Untertanen und zwischen Untertanen und Herrscher besteht ein Austausch gegenseitiger Pflichten: Welche drückender und mühseliger sind, wage ich nicht zu entscheiden.
  • Pflicht

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• Zwischen gutem Verstand und gutem Geschmack besteht derselbe Unterschied wie zwischen Ursache und Wirkung.
  • Verstand

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• A modest man never talks of himself.

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• A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.

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• After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.

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• As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

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• As shadows sharpen the contours of figures in a painting, so modesty lets human merits appear to better effect.

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• Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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• Between good sense and good taste there is the same difference as between cause and effect.

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• Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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• Cunning leads to knavery. - It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. - Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

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• Eloquence is to the sublime what the part is to the whole.

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

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• Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

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

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• For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being born, he suffers when he dies, and he forgets to live.

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• Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

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• He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income.

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