Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
Quotes from The Characters or Manners of the Present Age — Jean de La Bruyère
1645–1696 France
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Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
He must be a dull Fellow indeed, whom neither Love, Malice, nor Necessity, can inspire with Wit.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
Love and friendship exclude each other.
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)
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