63 Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere about Men
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A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]
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Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
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A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
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A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
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