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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 315 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

Phidias (490-432 B.C.) was a Greek sculptor of renown; Zeuxis (424-400 B.C.), a Greek painter, who is said to have painted grapes so well that some birds came and pecked at them.

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