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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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Browse Quotations by La Bruyere, Jean De

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.


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