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A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Topic: Blushes
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
Topic: Children
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
Topic: Deceit
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
Topic: Deceit
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Topic: Generosity
Author: Jean De La Bruyère
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Topic: Generosity
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
Topic: Heroes
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Topic: Jest
Author: Jean De La Bruyère
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
Topic: Jewels
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
Topic: Judges
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Topic: Laughter
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
Topic: Linguists
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Topic: Lovers
Author: Jean De La Bruyère
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.
Topic: Merit
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
Topic: Merit
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Topic: Miracles
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Topic: Misfortune
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Topic: Modesty
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
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