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Letter "J" » Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
«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.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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long-lived, maladies, malady, obstinate, reconciliation, sick person, surest, The Passion
«Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity»
«A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.»
«There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Mediocrity
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bombast, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, frigid, intolerable, pompously
«One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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laughing
«This great misfortune / to be incapable of solitude.»
«The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?»
«The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth»
«Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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weaker
«The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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