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“It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.”

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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

“I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.”

Men Mind Wells Heart Earth Values Universe Known Limits And Love Spots Fixed Estates Well Known Worldly Heart And Mind Small Parts Acres Coarse

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“When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.”

Certain Secret Influence Lovers Charm Irresistible

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“Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.”

People Decision Arrogance Grandeur Supplies Inhumanity

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“We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.”

Thinking Should Speak Wish Opinion Taste Endeavour

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“To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.”

Writing Truth Is

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“For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.”

People Speak

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“I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.”

Men Should Heaven Stars Effort Atoms Discovering Contemplating Smallest Short Sighted Discovering The Truth

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“Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.”

Men Looks Persons Different Feelings Sex Sensual Look Up Coarse

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“Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.”

Happens Certain Eternity Infinite Connected Infallible Undefined

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“All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.”

People Lying Names Distance Deceiving Inspection People Lie

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