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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

~Jean De La Bruyere

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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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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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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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