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Jean de la Bruyere

"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."

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"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

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"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
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"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."
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"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."
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"A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were."
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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
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"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."
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"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."
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"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably."
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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
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