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“Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“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.”

Knows Men Opinion Prejudice Envy Unjust Caprice Flatterer Insincere

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.”

Women Divine Miracle Contradiction Historian Inspirational Women Contradicting Caprice Cute Girl

Author:Jules Michelet

“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.”

Mind Book Reading Can Do Generations Goes On Poison Dose Poisoning

Author:William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”

Knows Inspirational Wells Sweet Poison

Book:A Chaplet of Verses

Source: A Chaplet of Verses

Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

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