"Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with……" — Jules de Goncourt
"Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter."
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13 Quotes by Jules de Goncourt
Jules de Goncourt has 13 quotes on this site.
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Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody…
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was…
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of…
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The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by…
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
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History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
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A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same…
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Time cures one of everything-even of living.
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
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More Antiquity Quotes
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Unknown Author
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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