Wise men sometimes avoid the world, that they may not be surfeited with it.
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1645–1696 France
Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696) was a French essayist and moralist.
- France
- Academics
- Essayists
- Philosophers
- Satirists
Also known as: Jean de La Bruyere, Jean de la Bruyère, La Bruyère, La Bruyère, Jean de
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Les Caractères (1688)
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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
Les Caractères (1688)
Les Caractères (1688)
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Les Caractères (1688)
Women, ever in extremes, are always either better or worse than men.
Les Caractères (1688)
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
Men are the reason why women do not love each other.
Les Caractères (1688)
Les Caractères (1688)
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own.
A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.
Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle (1688)
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.
Les Caractères (1688)
Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Les Caractères (1688)
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Les Caractères (1688)
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to its part.
Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
Les Caractères (1688)
Les Caractères (1688)
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