Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté.
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INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE 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 One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND