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Jean de La Bruyere

Quote of Jean de La Bruyere - All is said, we have come...


Biography - Jean de La Bruyere:

French philosopher and moralist.
Born: 1645 - Died: 1696
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Tout est dit, et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il y a des hommes et qui pensent.

German
Alles ist schon gesagt, und seit siebentausend Jahren kommt man zu spät, das heißt, seitdem es Menschen, denkende Menschen gibt.




See also 

See also...



Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes

Jean de La Bruyere also said...


Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.





We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.





The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.












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