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Jean de La Bruyère. The most famous aphorisms

The author must calmly accept malicious criticism, and especially not cross out criticized passages.
The trouble is when a person does not have enough intelligence to say well, or common sense to carefully remain silent.
Noble only that which is disinterested.
The wealth of other people is acquired at the cost of peace, health, honor, conscience - do not envy them.
Most of all, mediocrity in poetry, music, painting and oratory is intolerable.
It is a misfortune to be delighted with yourself and your mind.
Character is reflected in every action of a person.
The coquette is dominated by vanity and frivolity.
In any business you can get rich by pretending to be honest.
In one respect, people are constant: they are evil, vicious, indifferent to virtue.
The great surprises us, the insignificant repels us, and habit reconciles us with both.
Nobles recognize perfection only in themselves, but the only thing that cannot be taken away from them is large possessions and a long line of ancestors. They do not want to learn anything - not only how to manage the state, but also how to manage their home.
An old man in love is one of the greatest monstrosities in nature.
External simplicity is a wonderful dress for outstanding people.
Everything has been said a long time ago. It is extremely difficult to convince others of the infallibility of your tastes; most often you end up with a collection of nonsense.
Everything flourishes in a country where no one makes a distinction between the interests of the state and the sovereign.
You have found a devoted friend if, having risen, he has not become acquainted with you.
High positions make great people even greater, and insignificant people even more insignificant.
The high style of a newspaperman is talking about politics.
High style reveals this or that truth, provided that the topic is maintained in a noble tone.
A high and difficult position is easier to occupy than to maintain.
Stamp paper is a disgrace to humanity: it was invented to remind people that they had made promises, and to convict them when they denied it.
Making promises at court is as dangerous as it is difficult not to make them.
Even beauty ceases to be beautiful when it is out of place.
A dogmatic tone is always the result of deep ignorance.
Friends mutually strengthen each other's views and forgive each other's minor shortcomings.
If two women, your friends, quarrel, then you have to choose between them, or lose both.
If a woman is unfaithful and this is known to the one she is cheating on, she is unfaithful - and nothing more, but if he does not know anything - she is treacherous.
If the need for anything disappears, the arts, sciences, inventions, and mechanics will disappear.
Women's treachery is useful in that it cures men of jealousy.
Women should be looked at without paying attention to their hairstyle and shoes.
A woman who has become fashionable is like that nameless blue flower that grows in the fields, suppresses the ears, destroys the harvest and takes the place of useful grains.
A woman who everyone considers cold has simply not yet met a man who can awaken love in her.
A coquette woman cares little about being loved, it is enough for her to be found cute and glorified as a beauty.
Women know how to love more than men, but men are more capable of friendship.
Women claim that men are fickle, and men prove that women are flighty.
Life is what people strive most to preserve and protect least.
Parishioners are charged more for marriages than for christenings, and christenings cost more than confession; thus a tax is levied on the sacraments, which seems to determine their relative merit.
The title of comedian was considered shameful among the Romans and honorable among the Greeks. What is the position of actors here? We look at them like the Romans and treat them like the Greeks.
Health and wealth, saving a person from bitter experience, make him indifferent; people, themselves dejected by sorrows, are much more compassionate towards their neighbors.
Both at the birth and at the end of love, people always experience confusion, remaining alone with each other.
There are two paths to a high position: a well-trodden direct road and a roundabout path, which is much shorter,
People treat the orders made by dying people in their wills as the words of oracles: everyone understands and interprets them in their own way, according to their own desires and benefits.
How great is the advantage of the living word over the written word.
When a woman ceases to love a man, she forgets everything - even the favors with which she gave him.
Criticism is sometimes not so much a science as a craft that requires endurance rather than intelligence.
It is easier and more useful to adapt to someone else's disposition than to adapt someone else's disposition to your own.
It is easier to ask an old man when he will die than a woman when she was born.
False greatness is arrogant, but is aware of its weakness and shows itself a little.
A flatterer has an equally low opinion of himself and of others.
A lover of rarities values not what is good or beautiful, but what is unusual and outlandish, and he alone has it.
People live too short to learn from their own mistakes.
People never trusted doctors and always used their services. Until people stop dying, doctors will be showered with ridicule and money.
Manners of gestures, speech and behavior are often the result of idleness or indifference; a great feeling and a serious matter return a person to his natural appearance.
A minister or ambassador is a chameleon. He hides his true character and puts on the disguise needed at the moment. All his plans, moral rules, political tricks serve one task - not to be deceived himself and to deceive others.
A man's opinion of women rarely coincides with the opinion of women.
The monarch lacks only one thing - the joys of private life.
A man keeps another's secret more faithfully than his own, and a woman keeps hers better than someone else's.
A man keeps someone else's secret, a woman keeps hers.
We love those we do good to and hate those we harm.
There is no sight in the world more beautiful than the face of a loved one, and there is no music sweeter than the sound of a beloved voice.
Arrogance is a character trait, a congenital vice.
Finding a vain person who considers himself happy is as difficult as finding a modest person who considers himself too unhappy.
In vain does the writer want to win admiring praise for his work. Fools admire. Smart people approve with reserve.
Enjoying health, people doubt the existence of God, just as they do not see sin in intimacy with a person of light morals; As soon as they get sick, they abandon their concubine and begin to believe in the creator.
Do not expect sincerity, justice, help and constancy from a person who came to court with the secret intention of rising. The new minister makes a lot of friends and relatives overnight.
Don't reject praise - you'll be considered rude.
Don't give advice in secular society, you'll only harm yourself.
You should not judge a person by his face - it only allows you to make assumptions.
Do not try to expose the rich fool to ridicule - all the ridicule is on his side.
It is not surprising that there are many gambling houses, it is surprising how many people give these houses their livelihood.
Do not rely on nobles, they rarely take the opportunity to do us good. They are guided only by the dictates of feeling, succumbing to the first impression.
Do not miss the opportunity to express a laudable opinion about the merits of the manuscript, and do not base it only on the opinion of others.
It is thankless to create a big name, life is coming to an end, and the work has barely begun.
The impossibility of proving that God does not exist convinces me that he exists.
There is no sight more beautiful than a beautiful face, and no music sweeter than the sound of a beloved voice.
There is no excess more beautiful than an excess of gratitude.
There is nothing more colorless than the character of a colorless person.
There is no such flaw or bodily imperfection that children would not notice; as soon as they discover it, they take over adults and cease to take them into account.
Is it really impossible to invent a means that would make women love their husbands?
It is best to remain silent about the powers that be. To speak well almost always means to flatter, to speak badly is dangerous while they are alive, and mean when they are dead.
Speakers are like soldiers in one respect: they take more risks than people in other professions, but they rise faster.
From cunning to trickery there is only one step; if you add a lie to cunning, you get trickery.
Rogues tend to think that everyone else is like them; They do not indulge in deception, but they themselves do not deceive others for long.
There are no great works composed collectively yet.
It is unforgivable for a decent person to gamble; risking a big loss is too dangerous a childish behavior.
Bias reduces the greatest man to the level of the most narrow-minded commoner.
Court life is a serious, cold and tense game. And the luckiest one wins.
Torture is an amazing invention that reliably destroys an innocent person if he is in poor health, and saves a criminal if he is strong and resilient.
The slave depends only on his master, the ambitious - on everyone who is able to help his rise.
A sensible man wears what the tailor advises him to wear; to despise fashion is as unreasonable as to follow it too much.
The most reasonable thing is to come to terms with the way of government under which you were born.
Freedom is not idleness, but the ability to freely manage your time and choose your occupation. He who does not know how to use his time wisely is the first to complain about its lack.
The heart becomes inflamed suddenly, friendship takes time.
The tendency to ridicule speaks of poverty of mind.
How many girls in the world to whom their extraordinary beauty has given nothing but the hope of extraordinary wealth.
Talkativeness is one of the signs of limitations.
Stoicism is an empty mind game, an invention. The person actually loses his temper, despairs, and screams.
Capital society is divided into circles, similar to small states: they have their own laws, customs, jargon. But the life of these circles is short-lived - two years at most.
The talent of an interlocutor is distinguished not by the one who speaks himself, but by the one with whom others willingly speak.
The father-in-law does not love the son-in-law, the father-in-law loves the daughter-in-law; mother-in-law loves son-in-law, mother-in-law does not love daughter-in-law: everything in the world is balanced.
It is much easier to yearn for someone you love than to live with someone you hate.
The one who has been elevated by luck in the game does not want to know his equals and clings only to nobles.
The vanity of metropolitan women is more disgusting than the rudeness of commoners.
The subjects of the despot have no homeland. The thought of it is supplanted by self-interest, ambition, slavishness.
The fading of love is irrefutable proof that a person is limited and that the heart has limits.
Love dies of fatigue, and oblivion buries it.
A smart person is never annoying.
The decline of people of judicial and military rank lies in the fact that they balance their expenses not with their income, but with their position.
It is dangerous to take part in a dubious undertaking; it is even more dangerous to end up with a nobleman. He'll get out of it at your expense.
The favorite is always lonely, he has no attachments or friends.
A good wit is a bad man.
Is it good to be a person about whom no one asks if he is famous?
Bravery is a special attitude of mind and heart that is passed on from ancestors to descendants.
Christian preaching has now turned into a performance; no one thinks about the meaning of God’s word, because preaching has become, first of all, fun, a game of chance, where some compete and others bet.
Most often, people are guided not by taste, but by passion.
A person of mediocre intelligence seems to be cut out of one piece: he is constantly serious and does not know how to joke.
A narcissistic person is one in whom fools see an abyss of merit. He's a cross between a fool and an impudent guy, with a bit of both.
A person whose intelligence and abilities are recognized by everyone does not seem ugly, even if he is ugly - no one notices his ugliness.
The more favors a woman gives to a man, the more she loves him and the less he loves her.
The more our neighbors are like us, the more we like them.
Charlatans deceive those who want to be deceived.
The doorman, valet, footman judge themselves by the nobility and wealth of those they serve.
Languages are just the key that opens access to science, but contempt for them casts a shadow over it too.

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