Monthly Archives: November 2010

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

Jean de La Bruyère As quoted in Selected Thoughts from the French: XV Century-XX Century, with English Translations (1913), pp. 132-133, by James Raymond Solly. This may conceivably be a misattribution, because as yet no definite citation of a specific work by La Bruyère has been located, and the statement is very similar to one known [...]

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