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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. - Jean de la Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. - Jean de la Bruyere

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. - Jean de la Bruyere

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. - Jean de la Bruyere

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. - Jean de la Bruyere

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. - Jean de la Bruyere

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. - Jean de la Bruyere

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. - Jean de la Bruyere

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. - Jean de la Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. - Jean de la Bruyere

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. - Jean de la Bruyere

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. - Jean de la Bruyere

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. - Jean de la Bruyere

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. - Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. - Jean de la Bruyere

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. - Jean de la Bruyere

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