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Jean de la Bruyère (French: [ʒɑ̃ də la bʁyjɛʁ]; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.

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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Mediocrity, Sanctuary, Honest, Take

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

Confide, Escapes, Friend, Love, Secret

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Disappear, Fool, Long, Thought, Troublesome

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Clearer, Dignity, Great Men, Men, See

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

False, Lie, Lying, Modesty, Refinement, Vanity

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Class, Dear, Envy, Let, Men, Suit

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr. , Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles. ]

Jewels, Pearls, Spirit, World

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr. , La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit. ]

Intellect, Jesting, Prove, Proves, Want

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

Faults, Men, Self, Tarr, Two, Wyndham

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

Distance, Dwindles, Lying, Name, Names, People

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Errors, Men, Rock, Value, Vanity

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

Character, Consists, Delineating, Plato, Writing

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Easier, Men, Overcome, Overcoming, Passion, Triumph

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Amiss, Attack, Imagination, Phantom, Prejudice, Thinking

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Funny, Goods, Men, Money, Sort, Worldly

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

Age, Attain, Fears, Old, Old Age

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

Beauty, Fortune, Girl, Girls, Use

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Anticipation, Apprehend, Suffer, Suffering, Worse

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Conduct, Manners, Men, World, Worth

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

Enough, Know, Lectures, May, Men, Subject

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