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“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.”

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Jean de la Bruyere

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

“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”

People Men May Certain Fall Fire Feet He Man Ready Horse Shoes Stealing Entrepreneurship Paris Cracks Blank Tails Coats Skulls Whips Pistols Treacherous Buckles Wrenches Stirrups

Book:The Atheist's Mass

Source: The Atheist's Mass

“One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.”

Life Mind Habit

Book:Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet

Source: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet

“Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.”

Ideas Asks Justice Brain Anarchist

Author:Honore de Balzac

“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”

People Ifs Said Would Be Faces Behinds Impossible Gossip

Author:Honore de Balzac

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