About Jean de La Bruyère
1645 – 1696
French moralist, author of "Les Caractères" (1688).
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
“Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”