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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, 9 Monate, 21 Tage oder 137.990 Tage alt.

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

• He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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• How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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• I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I began to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely too eclipse that of others.

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• If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil.

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• It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold their tongues.

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• It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

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• It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

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• It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

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• It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

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• Let us not complain against men because of their rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love of self, their forgetfulness of others. They are so made. Such is their nature.

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• Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

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• Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.

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• Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

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• Love and friendship exclude each other.

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• Love begins with love.

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• Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock; it takes more than wit to become an author.

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• 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.

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• Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

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• Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

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• Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

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