Jean La Bruyere

(27 votes)   To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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(13 votes)   Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

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(11 votes)   Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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(8 votes)   All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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(8 votes)   The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

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(4 votes)   One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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(237 votes)   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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1645-1696, French Writer

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(193 votes)   All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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(132 votes)   Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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(132 votes)   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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(122 votes)   At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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(119 votes)   Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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(117 votes)   A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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(114 votes)   The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

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(113 votes)   The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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