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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le sage quelquefois évite le monde, de peur d'être ennuyé.

German
Der Weise meidet zuweilen die Menschen, aus Furcht sich zu langweilen.




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There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.




Quotes for: sage


Quotes

Quotes for: sage


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.





Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.





From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.





It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.





Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.





The wise man is rich











Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes for: solitude


Quotes

Quotes about solitude:


Miss one person and the world seems empty.





A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.





All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.





As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.





One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.





I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.











Quotes

Quotes for: Boredom


He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.





Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.
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Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.





Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.





Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.







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.





We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.





All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.












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