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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.


Charles de Secondat

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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
ALBERT EINSTEIN Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
ALBERT EINSTEIN To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
MATTHEW PRIOR At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by...
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD This may not be the most beautiful building at Charles de Gaulle. But practical things can have thei...
HUBERT FONTANEL In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
ALBERT CAMUS In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death
ALBERT CAMUS There never was a France like the Madonna that Charles de Gaulle worships in the fresco of his imagi...
DAVID SCHOENBRUN To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to...
STENDHAL No matter his death, he should be sentenced. His family should not be able to see him even dead in t...
FERDONE QERKEZI There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS His birth parents literally gave him away at birth to another couple who, during his first year of l...
THOM SHUMAN When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing...
LOUIS NIZER The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fu...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurge...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...
MARY RENAULT But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death.
SORIN CERIN What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or...
CATHERINE CROWE He's [Prince Charles] very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't fin...
MADONNA What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA . . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at ...
MARK TWAIN Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON A Christian man should not strive to die for his family. Rather, he should live for his family.
JAIME CONTRERAS Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at ...
JENNIFER DUNN As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younge...
ALEXANDER POPE If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he doe...
GEORGE LOIS A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habit...
BLAISE PASCAL A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing th...
HASSAN NASRALLAH Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ...
THOMAS PAINE There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't fin...
MADONNA CICCONE Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his childr...
ROBERT NATHAN If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.
DUOP CHAK WUOL Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON The Quit Man cometh, his minion at his heels.
JOHN COREY WHALEY Koyun eti göçebe halkların temel gıda maddesidir. Ayrıca koyun hızlı büyüyen, et ve iç ya�...
SERCAN AHINCANOV No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in se...
A. W. TOZER One should save his money against hard times, save his wife at the sacrifice of his riches, but inva...
CHANAKYA So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden oppor...
THOMAS WOLFE This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult tim...
ALU ALKHANOV To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.
GEORGE SHEEHAN Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...
ALBERT CAMUS Man,His world & His dreams;Place man at the right spot & all his dreams will rightly make sense.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He was a man at his lowest end.
LOU LAMORIELLO At the time of his death, he was not an employee of CBS-5 -- he was a former employee.
AKILAH MONIFA I take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda and that he will be his own man a...
PATRICK LEAHY My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One da...
ROBERTA PEARCE The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
GEORGE MACDONALD Before the Charles fight, he fought Jimmy Beau in a main event at Madison Square Garden. He won a 10...
DON HAMILTON Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. May...
TERRY BROOKS 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
JOHN SELDEN When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
JAPANESE PROVERB A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door
CONFUCIUS ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work,...
JOHN RUSKIN A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMA His (left) elbow is lower than it should be and he's not pitching like he's coming off a slope. At t...
JIM TRACY Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have ever...
MARY STEWART A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of l...
BARUCH SPINOZA A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE To be a better man, man should define his core value and write his own eulogy and conquer fear and w...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA 'Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels
JOHN SELDEN Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private....
LYNDON B. JOHNSON When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
MME. A.M. BIGOT DE CORNUEL Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply can...
CONFUCIUS Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
ANTHONY EDEN No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Give me a man who sings at his work.
THOMAS CARLYLE Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 No heart can conceive tha...
JOHN OWEN A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
STAN SAKAI A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of th...
JAMES THURBER Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not ...
CHARLES DICKENS The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of...
G.K. CHESTERTON

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CHARLES DE SECONDAT Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT You have to study a great deal to know a little.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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CHARLES DE LINT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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CHARLES DE LINT An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A kiss on one cheek makes her blush both cheeks. (Un bisou sur une joue - Fait rougir les deux joues...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoir...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
CHARLES DE LINT There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
CHARLES DE LINT No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The waves lie down on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la p...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Dinosaurs were big ; likewise, their bones. (Dinosaures furent grands ; - De même, leurs ossements....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il m...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE “We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU “The drunkard who is colorblind still sees where is the wine. (L'ivrogne qui est daltonien - Voit ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong doesn't make the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Eternal snows are at the top. Eyes of beautiful are at the top. (Neiges éternelles sont au sommet. ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way fo...
CHARLES DE LINT Behind anger, is hidden the cemetery. (Derrière la colère, - Se cache le cimetière.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The worst enemy is oneself, but I do not kill, because I love him. (Le pire ennemi, c'est soi-même,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
CHARLES DE LINT “If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself. (Si la rose est belle fleur,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
CHARLES DE GAULLE