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«The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.»
«Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.»
«The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.»
«There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.»
«There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.»
«Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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«We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.»
«A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself»
«The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.»
«The former [Corneille] paints men as they should be, the latter [Racine] paints them as they are.»
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