Bossuet Quotes
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The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The world itself makes us sick of the world.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.
— Mirabel Osler
Every error is truth abused.
— 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 them for what they are.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Once you believe in quantum mechanics," I said, "it's hard to rule something out merely because it is impossible.
— Ted Kosmatka
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
— Roger Williams
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
— Carson McCullers
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
— Stephen Leacock
If you want to love, express hate. If you want to hate, express love.
— Strephon Kaplan-Williams
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.
— 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 is lessened by a single flaw.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.
— Orrin Woodward
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.
— Adriana Trigiani
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet