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Jean-Baptiste Dumas

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JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS In politics nothing is contemptible.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Finality is not the language of politics.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
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JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE A brother is a friend given by Nature.
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JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies...
JEAN BAPTISTE BERNADOTTE I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COROT The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
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JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enter...
JEAN BAPTISTE MONTEGUT Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
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JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
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MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importun...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.
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JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
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JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Innocence also weighs
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
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JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Often it is fatal to live too long.
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JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea....
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [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...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
ALEXANDER DUMAS Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fou...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In what we used to call the Club Med economies, there's Anglo-Saxon borrow-and-spend, and, on the su...
CHARLES DUMAS There we are introducing the children to the routine of the school.
JOELLE DUMAS Right after Katrina it looked like a no-brainer. Uncertainties about where things were going as a re...
CHARLES DUMAS I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of y...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" <...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDER DUMAS I was opposed to the deal but all my cabinet colleagues were in favour,
ROLAND DUMAS Italian labour costs are beyond the point of being compatible with EMU membership without painful re...
CHARLES DUMAS The children's talents are nurtured so they can feel comfortable with each other and in what they br...
JOELLE DUMAS Obviously, 9/11 was one of the most profound events in our life as a country. Foreigners weren't rea...
CHARLES DUMAS [Firoozeh's dad speaking] He continued, "It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people...
FIROOZEH DUMAS Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, an...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men could...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS My dad says the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.
FIROOZEH DUMAS And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feeling...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in ...
FIROOZEH DUMAS We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Nothing was being done here to commemorate 9/11. I believe drama has the potential for healing, and ...
CHARLES DUMAS