To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. - Jean de La Bruyère

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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

Jean de La Bruyère

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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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Alternative Names: Jean de La Bruyere • Bruyère

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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.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.