It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divin...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; i...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the m...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury w...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without ensl...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's e...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire bene...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving t...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be f...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the in...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Every nation has the government it deserves
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they a...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the li...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot te...
MARIE DE FRANCE The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without author...
MARIE DE FRANCE There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden ...
MARIE DE FRANCE He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
MARIE DE FRANCE But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing ...
MARIE DE FRANCE A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
MARIE DE FRANCE When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
MARIE DE FRANCE I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
MARIE DE FRANCE Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Su...
MARIE DE FRANCE The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
MARIE DE FRANCE For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and...
MARIE DE FRANCE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the ligh...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no person who is not dangerous for someone
MARIE DE SEVIGNE . . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at ...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of ...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE . . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the gre...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or se...
MARIE DE FRANCE Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, w...
MARIE DE FRANCE We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abu...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE . . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions
MARIE DE SEVIGNE The heart has no wrinkles
MARIE DE SEVIGNE If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for L...
MARIE DE FRANCE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the lig...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Ignorance is the mother of presumption
MARIE DE GOURNAY Hunting God is a great adventure.
MARIE DE FLORIS When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I ca...
JOSEPH DE BEAUFORT The first step is the hardest.
MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROND True friendship is never serene.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]
ANDRE MARIE DE CHENIER It is only the first step that is difficult.
MARIE DE VICHY-CHACONNE We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine pass...
MME. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SEVIGNE Familiarity breeds attempt
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat yo...
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual momen...
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends go...
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Petty laws breed great crimes
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster."

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JEANNE-MARIE LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.
KARL JOSEPH, PRINCE DE LIGNE Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wiv...
CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the ...
VICTOR JOSEPH ÉTIENNE DE JOUY The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with ...
MARIE CURIE My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
MARIE HELVIN I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...
MARIE CURIE The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic...
MARIE CURIE I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class...
MARIE CURIE If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructi...
MARIE CURIE I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...
MARIE CURIE When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of...
MARIE CURIE There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
MARIE CURIE In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
MARIE CURIE A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural pheno...
MARIE CURIE On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series a...
MARIE LU Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love ...
MARIE OSMOND I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a ...
MARIE HELVIN One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre...
MARIE RUTKOSKI I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I ...
MARIE HELVIN My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several...
MARIE HELVIN I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ...
MARIE CORELLI No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mo...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Off to her bed.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Let Them Book the Four Seasons,
MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
MARIE CURIE Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: th...
MARIE RUTKOSKI We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if ...
MARIE LU Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swe...
MARIE LOVELL Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
MARIE CURIE Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.
MARIE LU He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.
DEE MARIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo...
MARIE OSMOND All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MARIE CURIE To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very dif...
MARIE LENERU By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi...
MARIE DRESSLER It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
MARIE DRESSLER I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand m...
MARIE CURIE If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are t...
MARIE ANTOINETTE We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita...
MARIE CURIE I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MARIE CURIE Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
MARIE LAURENCIN Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the genera...
MARIE CURIE I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only ...
MARIE CURIE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
MARIE CHAPIAN Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. Th...
MARIE WINN We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I kn...
MARIE CURIE Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat...
MARIE CORELLI I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
MARIE CURIE Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job ...
MARIE BRENNER My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy...
MARIE KONDO During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one ...
MARIE CURIE Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell...
MARIE WINDSOR All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...
MARIE CURIE We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...
MARIE CURIE Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c...
MARIE CURIE Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.
MARIE HELVIN I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIE Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MARIE CURIE Let them eat cake.
MARIE ANTOINETTE You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things...
MARIE OSMOND I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, ...
MARIE CURIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a...
MARIE CORELLI I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ...
MARIE CURIE Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits p...
MARIE KONDO Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all t...
MARIE CORELLI It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha...
TEENA MARIE The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment...
MARIE KONDO As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
MARIE HELVIN I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
MARIE BRENNER I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in H...
MARIE HELVIN Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop&#...
MARIE HELVIN This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
MARIE WINDSOR We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I thin...
MARIE OSMOND Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure ...
MARIE KONDO Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?
MARIE LU What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
MARIE LU I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
MARIE LU It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and conv...
MARIE KONDO In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, th...
MARIE CURIE I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don'...
TEENA MARIE Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recen...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació...
MARIE NDIAYE You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at ...
MARIE LU Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the ...
MARIE LU But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?
MARIE ANTOINETTE Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!
DEE MARIE It's not across the board but it will apply to almost all of GM's mid-sized cars,
ANNE MARIE Community-based enrollment is the true success story of New York's program, and it has changed peopl...
ANNE MARIE It has definitely gone more upscale in recent years, and some of the smaller family owned places hav...
ANNE MARIE There are a lot of things that have changed with the way people use libraries, ... We really need to...
ANNE MARIE I ran away when I was 18 and now I still can't stop hurting myself because of the pain he caused me,...
ANNE MARIE It's not something you have to do five days a week. It's very flexible.
ANNE MARIE We cannot comment on speculation. I have not heard that,
ANNE MARIE There were strong doubts about whether this was an appropriate thing for regional companies to be do...
ANNE MARIE It has been a pleasure to work with Cablevision and combine our talents and resources to create soft...
ANNE MARIE