About Jean de La Bruyère
1645 – 1696
French moralist, author of "Les Caractères" (1688).
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“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!”