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Ambition
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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Authors & Writing
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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Boredom
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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Children
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Crime
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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Criticism
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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Death
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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Education
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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Friends
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Generosity
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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God
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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.
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Greatness & Great Things
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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Hate
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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.
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Humor
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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Law
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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Life
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
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Love
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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Manners
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Miracles
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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Money
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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Ridicule
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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Sadness
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Books by and about Jean De La Bruyere