La Bruyère

La Bruyère also says, "There is a certain mediocrity that helps to make a man appear wise."

"A man possessing the highest order of mind is, nevertheless, unequal," says La Bruyère.

Could such a genius as Balzac be accused of plagiarism because he expressed a thought practically in the very words of La Bruyère?

The changes in them are the changes that Prior or La Bruyère themselves made and approved.

Everything has been said,” wrote La Bruyère, concerning the works of the pen, “and we can only glean after the poets.