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Him Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
- No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with…
- As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
- The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
- You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
- The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one…
- The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
- A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
- It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden