"Laws change more slowly than custom, and though……" — Marguerite Yourcenar
"Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom."
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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44 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
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To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling…
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A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand,…
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I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs,…
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's…
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that…
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Books are not life, only its ashes.
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One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it…
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I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to…
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When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate.…
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are…
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— Buzz Aldrin
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a…
— Oleg Cassini
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
— Agnes Repplier
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
— Colin Powell
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit…
— Sean Penn
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