A brother is a friend given by Nature.


Jean Baptiste Legouve

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.
LEGOUVE PERE
"Los amigos: una familia cuyos individuos se eligen a voluntad." [ KARR, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse ]
FERNANDO CORMENZANA
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of th...
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE
Conquests will come and go but NAPOLéON BONAPARTE A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
PROVERB
Happiness is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth.
A FRIEND
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE
I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on farawa...
SARA BAUME
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
BIBLE
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
EDWARD YOUNG
Jean-Baptiste has not looked as sharp as in November and Dimitri made a real difference as a replace...
BERNARD LAPORTE
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS
How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
{PROVERBS 17:17}
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
BIBLE
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool
BELLAMY BROOKS
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT
This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER
Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
JOHN STEINBECK
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN
He's my friend. He's my brother.
JA RULE
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
All A-students passed, Jean Marie is an A-student, Therefore, Jean Marie passed.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK
Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
PETER KREEFT
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
QUENTIN S. CRISP
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT
I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, de...
SARA BAUME
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer tha...
BIBLE
The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
SUNDAY ADELAJA
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
'Johnnies' is like saying 'little Jean,' because we were often very young, but it is also the name g...
FRANCOIS FEUITE
At the narrow passage, there is no brother and no friend.
BEDOUIN PROVERBS
At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend
ARABIAN PROVERB
If your friend happens to be the only person that helped you in your time of need,then authomaticall...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB
„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER
I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
TAMRON HALL
Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural...
CHANAKYA
Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,
JEAN LAPIERRE
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If your friendship, relationship, amorousness of that of many years has dead-ended, you feel your wo...
PEX PARKER
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS
What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR
Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET
Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU