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• The impossibility I find myself in to prove that God does not exist proves to me his existence.

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• Those who make poor use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

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• The flatterer does not have a good opinion of himself or of others.

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• Most people spend the greater part of their lives making others miserable.

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• There is a type of shame which comes from being happy at another’s distress.

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• Children have neither past nor future. They live in the present, something which rarely happens to us.

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• Children are haughty, disdainful, angry, envious, curious, interested, lazy, fickle, shy, self-indulgent, liars, deceivers…they do not wish to suffer evil, but like to do evil: they are already adults.

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• There are only three great events for a person: to be born, to live and to die. He does not feel his own birth, he suffers upon death and he forgets to live.

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• To speak humanely, death has a useful function: it puts an end to old age.

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• If life is miserable, it is difficult to endure; if it is happy, it is horrible to lose. They come to the same thing.

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• A slave has but one master; an ambitious person has as many as he needs to make his fortune.

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• Life is short and bothersome: all we do is desire what we do not have.

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• What he does tomorrow will be what he did today and yesterday; and he shall die after having lived this way.

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• How difficult it is to be happy with someone!

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• Loves die from disgust, and forgetting buries them.

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• Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.

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• Love and friendship exclude one another.

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• Time, which strengthens friendships, weakens love.

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• A dispassionate woman is one who has yet to seethe one she should love.

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• A man keeps another person’s secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.

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Jean de La Bruyere (142)

Birth:	16th August, 1645
Death:	10th May, 1696
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Author, Moralist, Philosopher

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Jean de La Bruyere was born in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher, author and moralist. He wrote several books include: Les Caracteres, Maximes et pensées, The Characters of Jean de La Bruyere, and La Bruyère and Vauvenargues.

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