Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
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Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth
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We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father
