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1461 French Quotes

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Deliver Everything Nothing Promise
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Keeps Poor Religion Rich
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage Hope Like Love
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Always Attempt End Enterprises
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Does Kind Law Men
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Battlefield Both Chaos Constant
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Courage Endurance Fatigue First
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Cannot Command Give I Can
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Answer Doctors Even Generals
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Cowardly Disagree Fear Know
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Crime Infectiousness Like Plague
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Counsel Master Only You
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Able Between Communication Man
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Afflict God Men Pleased
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Hand Hang Him Honest
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Affairs Essential First Secrecy
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Any Carry Depended Enterprise
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

How Kings Know Knowledge
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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

Powerful Weapon Devil Humility
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“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Practice Judge Favorable Light
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“We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.”

Spend Time Thanking God
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“Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .”

Charity Cement Communities God
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“All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
Comes Proper Wait
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“Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

Rejecting Good Man Abandons
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“Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.”

Allow God Completion Expect
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“He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.”

Blesses Humbles Accompanied Show
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“There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.”

God Fearing Persons Fault
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“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
Nature Trees Deep Roots
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“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

Maxim Surprised Current Passing
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do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.

Surprised Trials Son God
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In the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

Kingdom Charity Inconvenience Neighbor
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Every Day Inspiration Working
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Captain Evening He His
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Atmosphere City Life Marvelous
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art Else Everything Passion
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Beauty Habitual Happiness Kinds
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Amusing Boring Considered Everything
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Even Financial Honesty Merchant
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Inner Nature Nothing Voice
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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done Except Little Nothing
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Goes Misunderstanding Only Round
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Dare Except Long Piece
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Among Artist Express First
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Always Art Done Effort
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Art Being Contingent Eternal
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