Jean de La Bruy�re

France
16 Aug 1645 // 11 May 1696
Writer / Moralist

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays