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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."

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"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"I teach that all men are mad."

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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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