No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to gi… - Jean de La Bruyère

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

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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Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes.

The same common-sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. - Jean de La Bruyère

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