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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#king #man #pious #were #who

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#his #man #many #master #masters

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

#finds #good #himself #ill #man

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. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#equal #happy #horrible #life #lose

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#cost #does #giving #hardest #live

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#makes #outwardly #politeness #should #within

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#crimes #less #men #than #their

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#friends #give #him #his #less

Under each formula lies a corpse. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#each #formula #lies #under

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

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