Great Throughts Treasury

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Jean de La Bruyère

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

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Character | Fault | Man | Fault |

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Claudius Buchanan

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

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Character | Good | Knowledge | Man | Purpose | Purpose |

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William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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Pierre Claude Boiste, fully Pierre Claude Victor Boiste

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

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Character | Confidence | Nothing |

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Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

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Character | Ignorance | Man | Nature | Self |

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Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

The trouble of the many and various aims of mortal men bring them much care, and herein they go forward by different paths but strive to reach one end, which is happiness. And that good is that, to which if any man attain, he can desire nothing further... Happiness is a state which is made perfect by the union of all good things. This end all men seek to reach, as I said, though by different paths. For there is implanted by nature in the minds of men a desire for the true good; but error leads them astray towards false goods by wrong paths.

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Aims | Care | Character | Desire | Error | Good | Man | Men | Mortal | Nature | Nothing | Wrong | Trouble | Happiness |

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Jean de La Bruyère

We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.

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Age | Character | Fear | Hope | Old age | Afraid | Old |

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Jean de La Bruyère

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

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Character | Cunning | Discretion | Good | Instinct | Life | Life | Looks | Men | Perfection | Reason | Sense | Understanding |

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Jean de La Bruyère

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much; a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows, but which all the world does not practice.

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Character | Little | Practice | World |

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Jean de La Bruyère

I am a fellow citizen of all men who think. Truth; that is my country.

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Character | Men | Truth |

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Eldress Harriet Bullard

Do good. This should be the aim of every human being, to make the world better for their having lived.

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Better | Character | Good | World |

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Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

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Character | Man | Thought | Happiness |

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Abel Bonnard

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

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Character | Duty | Happy | Joy | Obligation | Right | Sadness | World |

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