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Jean de La Bruyère
- Form
- Form Aphorisms
- Year
- Year 1688
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 350
Everything has been said, and we come too late: that is how the book opens, seven thousand years into the history of men who think, and then it spends itself proving otherwise. Jean de La Bruyère lived at the edge of the greatest court in Europe, a tutor of no rank in the Condé household, near enough to Versailles to hear how the powerful talked.
we come too late to say anything that has not been said already
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