We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
-- Jean de La Bruyere
-- Jean de La Bruyere
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- We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.
Jean de La... - We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.
Jean de la... - As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool,
but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. -... - If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
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Jimmy... - Perfect valor is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing
before all the world.
Francois Duc de la... - In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And, born in bed, in bed we die.
The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to... - We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Napoleon... - All changes, even the most longed for, have their
melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves... - We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
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Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim...
From the same category:
- What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose!
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer... - Holmes Does It Again:
Scott... - The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right thing for the
wrong reason.
-- TS... - You will experience a strong urge to do good;
but it will pass... - To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of
fools...
