"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Education
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"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Friends and Friendship
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"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Generosity
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Ambition
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on God
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"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Greatness
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Hatred
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Humor
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Law and Lawyers
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"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Law and Lawyers
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"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Life and Living
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Life and Living
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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."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Life and Living
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Love
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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Manners
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Miracles
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"The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Misers and Misery
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"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Ridicule
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Secrets
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"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Bores and Boredom
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"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker"

La Bruyere, Jean De on Time and Time Management
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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Unhappiness
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"It requires more than mere genius to be an author."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Writers and Writing
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"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Children
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"If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Crime and Criminals
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"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Critics and Criticism
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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Death and Dying
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