There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]
DUC DE LEVIS Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
DUC DE LEVIS Nobility carries its obligations
DUC DE LEVIS There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]
DUC DE LEVIS A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a fes...
DUC DE CHOISEUL To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce...
PETER DE GASTON LEVIS Make sure the screens are shut and the damper is open.
DALE LEVIS The fire box should be cleaned out of old ashes and make sure you shut your damper.
DALE LEVIS You always open your damper first and you should always get it inspected if you haven't used it in a...
DALE LEVIS Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and y...
DUC DE LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., D...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all pra...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vic...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small inter...
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr.,...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un s...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du m...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aus...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense pl...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the r...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de s...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Tou...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all t...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and f...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir ca...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous...
LOUIS DE ROUVROY DUC DE ST. SIMON It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]
PAUL I, GRAND DUC DE RUSSIE What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So fo...
NONG DUC MANH Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in th...
TRAN DUC LUONG However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind...
TRAN DUC LUONG The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooper...
TRAN DUC LUONG In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or poi...
NONG DUC MANH What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation aga...
NONG DUC MANH The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperatio...
TRAN DUC LUONG Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam w...
NONG DUC MANH This is possible during the period of temporary detention, according to Vietnam's criminal procedure...
NGUYEN DUC TRINH The socialist-oriented market economic does not hamper the emulation movement. Instead, it acts as a...
NONG DUC MANH You comrades must take immediate care for the victims' families and do not let anyone be hungry,
NONG DUC MANH Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in th...
TRAN DUC LUONG As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.
NONG DUC MANH The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We n...
NONG DUC MANH Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of c...
TRAN DUC LUONG Our local authorities will support foreign firms to raise cocoa production in the future, aiming to ...
LE VAN DUC After a trial period, which indicated that cocoa trees are suitable to land and weather conditions i...
LE VAN DUC We have good conditions such as arable land, hard-working farmers and markets for expanding the coco...
LE VAN DUC All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
NONG DUC MANH Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois...
ARMAND JEAN DU PLESSIS DUC DE RICHELIEU Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANÇOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. [Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je ...
ANDOCHE JUNOT (DUC D'ABRANTES) The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [...
THOMAS ROBERT DUC D'ISLY BUGEAUD Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE