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View Plans“ ”Some people, after having read a book, quote certain passages which they do not thoroughly understand, and moreover completely change their character by what they put in of their own. Those passages, so mutilated and disfigured that they are nothing else but their own expressions and thoughts, they expose to censure, maintain them to be bad, and the world agrees with them; but the passage such critics think they quote, and in reality do not, is not a bit the worse for it.
About Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696) was a French essayist and moralist.
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Additional quotes by Jean de La Bruyère
The same common-sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
We should only endeavor to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions; this would be too great an undertaking.
«Стараться забыть кого-то — значит всё время о нём помнить. Любовь тем похожа на укоры совести, что размышления и воспоминания лишь укрепляют её. Чтобы побороть свою страсть, нужно попытаться вовсе о ней не думать.»
Жан де Лабрюйер «Характеры или нравы нынешнего века»