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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

• The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

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• There are certain things in which mediocrity is insupportable-poetry, music, paiting, public speaking.

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• There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day.

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• There are only two ways of getting on in this world; by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

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• There are some extraordinary fathers who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy; and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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• There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

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• There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

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• There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches.

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• Those who make the worse use of their time most complain of its shortness.

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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• We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

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• We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.

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• We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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• Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

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• C'est trop contre un mari d'être coquette et dévote: Une femme devrait opter.

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• C'est un métier que de faire un livre, comme de faire une pendule.

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• C'est une grande difformité dans la nature qu'un vieillard amoureux.

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• C'est une grande misère que de n'avoir pas assez d'esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de jugement pour se taire.

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• Comme l'ombre fait ressortir les figures sur un tableau, la modestie met en valeur les mérites humains.

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