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Biography - Jean de La Bruyere:

French philosopher and moralist.
Born: 1645 - Died: 1696
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'harmonie la plus douce est le son de voix de celle que l'on aime.

German
Die süßeste Harmonie ist der Ton der Stimme derjenigen, die man liebt.




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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: harmony


Quotes

Quotes for: harmony


Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.





Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Wisdom is harmony.





When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.





From things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.











Quotes

Quotes for: voice


Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.





Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.





Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.





What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.








Quotes

Jean de La Bruyere also said...


Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.





Great things only require to be simply told.





The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.












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