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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

• Most men employ the first part of life to make the rest miserable.

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• Most people are much more capable of one major effort than of steady perseverance.

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• No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

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• One must laugh before one is happy or one may die without ever having laughed at all.

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

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• Talent, taste, wit, good sense are very different things but by no means incompatible. Between good sense and good taste there exists the same difference as between cause and effect, and between wit and talent there is the same proportion as between a whole and its parts.

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

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• The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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• 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.

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• The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

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• The less we like to hear a truth the more we are in need of it.

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• The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

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• The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

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• The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

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• The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.

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• The opposite of what is rumored about men and things is often the truth.

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• The people have little intelligence, the great no heart . . . if I had to choose I should have no hesitation: I would be of the people.

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• The pleasure of criticism deprives us of that of being deeply moved by beautiful things.

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• The slave has but one master; the man of ambition has as many as there are people useful to his fortune.

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• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

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