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Jean de LaBruyere
There are only...
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of...
Everything has been...
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand...
It is the...
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Making a book...
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an...
The shortest and...
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote...
When a book...
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge...
To make a...
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an...
Those who make...
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
There are certain...
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture...
There is no...
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun...
There are only...
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in...
A vain man...
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of...
The Opera is...
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
A heap of...
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling...
The shortest an...
The shortest an best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote...
There are some...
There are some extraordinary fathers who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children...
The wise person...
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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The exact opposite...
The exact opposite of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Source: 'Les...
A mediocre mind...
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
There are but...
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of...