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Jean de La Bruyere

Quote of Jean de La Bruyere - Two persons cannot long be friends...


Biography - Jean de La Bruyere:

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

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'on ne peut aller loin dans l'amitié, si l'on n'est pas disposé à se pardonner les uns les autres les petits défauts.

German
Man kommt in der Freundschaft nicht weit, wenn man nicht bereit ist, kleine Fehler zu verzeihen.




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What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.




Quotes for: forgiveness


Quotes

Quotes about forgiveness:


Love truth, but pardon error.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.





Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.











Quotes for: friendship


Quotes

Quotes about friendship:


Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.





Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.











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.





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












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