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Jean De La Bruyere Quotes
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late



The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?



Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity



A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.



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



There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast.








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