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To: average joe who wrote (8315)	5/13/2005 3:31:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Heck, at least I've converted you to La Bruyère's wisdom... so much the better! Here's a last one for the road: 43. His very ambition cures the wise man of ambition; he aims at such great things that he cannot rest content with what are commonly prized, such as position, fortune and favour: these petty privileges offer him nothing good or substantial enough to satisfy his heart, or to deserve his efforts and desires; he must take pains, indeed, not to show too much contempt for them. The only prize capable of tempting him is that sort of glory which ought to spring from virtue pure and simple; but men seldom grant it, and he does without it. ourcivilisation.com