Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Life
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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
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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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Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]
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Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
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Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.
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Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.
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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.
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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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