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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Quotes from the same author
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de La Bruyère
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
Jean de la Bruyere
