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- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
- Jean de LaBruyere
- A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
- Jean de La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
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