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 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 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 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 Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Action makes more fortune than caution.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
LUC DE CLAPIERS You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise...
LUC DE CLAPIERS 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 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 An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY 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 They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are...
LUC MONTAGNIER We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody...
LUC MONTAGNIER So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It wa...
LUC FERRARI I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor...
LUC FERRARI Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
LUC MONTAGNIER Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not reall...
LUC DARDENNE It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. ...
LUC BESSON My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some ef...
LUC MONTAGNIER Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produc...
LUC MONTAGNIER He's not a good guy, he's a great man.
LUC LAVERDURE He took his stick and drew a circle with about a 6-foot radius and said, 'Put it anywhere in there.'
LUC ROBITAILLE This is something I had to do after seeing all the devastation. If I was out of hockey and nobody re...
LUC ROBITAILLE I have mixed feelings about these long European stages. Unlike some of our rivals we had no problems...
LUC ALPHAND It was a case of surviving. It was not really a stage suited to the strengths of the Mitsubishis. It...
LUC ALPHAND We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finis...
LUC ALPHAND Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of sc...
LUC ALPHAND The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.
LUC ALPHAND It was a big advantage to be first on the road.
LUC ALPHAND Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. The...
LUC ALPHAND I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I thin...
LUC ALPHAND From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De Villier...
LUC ALPHAND I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The im...
LUC ALPHAND Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in...
LUC FERRARI What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know ...
LUC ROBITAILLE I just don't like to see people suffer,
LUC ROBITAILLE I guess he was tired of the day-in, day-out grind. It gets to the point where you have to decide whe...
LUC ROBITAILLE I still really like it. I knew I had to do a lot to get ready for this season. I started skating in ...
LUC ROBITAILLE We're a brand new line and we're just starting to learn each other, ... I think if we keep playing t...
LUC ROBITAILLE I've been getting more and more ice time and more chances. Therefore, sooner or later, a puck is goi...
LUC ROBITAILLE I think that I am a collaborative fascist. With Natalie it was different, she was only 11-years-old ...
LUC BESSON Obviously at 11 she didn't smoke, she was against it. She was already responsible. She said: "I don'...
LUC BESSON In my head, the fact that I have only two more films to make is pushing me. I say: "Oh my God, I've ...
LUC BESSON It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, ...
LUC BESSON I love that because I work one hour per day. And I see the director at the end of the day and I just...
LUC BESSON There are a few directors that I really loved who made like five, six great movies, but are still sh...
LUC BESSON I'm disappointed for him that he has made such a clumsy start. He's inexperienced and got caught out...
LUC LONGLEY I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take prec...
LUC MONTAGNIER The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
LUC MONTAGNIER It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will ...
LUC MONTAGNIER We just battled all night and never quit. It was pure hard work. It was a very rewarding victory.
LUC ROBITAILLE I think it was the right thing to do. We needed to get those people out of there and get them anothe...
LUC ROBITAILLE Considering this progress, and in the general interest of the country, I ask farmers to lift the bar...
LUC GUYAU Do we want to see the death of French farming? We absolutely have to support cattle breeding which i...
LUC GUYAU It's good to be back, it seems we had a little correction.
LUC GIRARD Oil prices are artificially high because of geopolitical premiums, particularly the crisis between t...
LUC GIRARD The market reacted positively to the lower than expected inflation figures. That means inflation is ...
LUC GIRARD That's the end of a correction, and people are flying back to the energy and mining sectors.
LUC GIRARD There has been a sharp decline in oil prices recently, so people started to come back and pile into ...
LUC GIRARD To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.
LUC DESPINS We'll have to look at it. It's too early to have an opinion.
LUC DESPINS So we had like five screens and people loved it and sent their friends and then the Japanese called ...
LUC BESSON I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.
LUC BESSON I promise I will do two more.
LUC BESSON My first attempt at the Dakar Rally ended with a seat in a helicopter and I never wanted to be in th...
LUC ALPHAND He's too proud a man but I know it did (hurt him physically),
LUC LAVOIE For a man like this to tape him without his knowledge and use it this way is nothing short of betray...
LUC LAVOIE It's a question of a good story and with a small documentary, you can reach many people. I think it ...
LUC JACQUET I'd like to dedicate this statuette to all the children in the world who saw our movie.
LUC JACQUET There is no chance right now of the farmers lifting their blockades. This was a fake negotiation. We...
LUC GUYAU The member states have to really start working together, because 2006 will be a crucial year for ene...
LUC WERRING We need to integrate our energy policy with our foreign policy. The danger of security of supplies f...
LUC WERRING It's certainly something I'll cherish forever. It was an amazing night. Nights like this are always ...
LUC ROBITAILLE I guess he was tired of the day-in, day-out grind,
LUC ROBITAILLE A player always wants to stay in soccer, but he is an outcast for the rest of his life.
LUC MISSON He gave his career to a court case to serve a cause and he sees that the transfer fees are still the...
LUC MISSON We need you, Dennis, wherever you are. We've got your ruby red slippers here. Come home. And bring T...
LUC LONGLEY 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