Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Every error is truth abused.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet