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.
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[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
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[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
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[Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
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[Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
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[Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
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[Lat., Les soupcons importun...
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LEGOUVE PERE The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
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[Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon
Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters.
[Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high
hands makes them obey its laws.
[Fr...
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[Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
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[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
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[Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
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[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
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[Fr., Vous l'...
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[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
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[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
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[Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
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[Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
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[Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
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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.
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