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the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.
— Frederic Bastiat
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
— Frederic Bastiat
Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.
— Frederic Dan Huntington
Play Mozart in memory of me.
— Frederic Chopin
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
— Frederic Bastiat
the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For
— Frederic Bastiat
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.
— Frederic Bastiat
The earth is suffocating ... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
— Frederic Chopin
We have reached a stage where we often pursue growth for growth's sake, a condition that in medical terminology would simply be called cancer.
— Frederic Laloux
There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.
— Frederic Martel?
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.
— Frederic Henry Hedge
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Love is faith and one faith leads to another.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
— Frederic Chopin
Time wasted is a theft from God.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.
— Frederic Raphael
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors.
— Frederic M. Perrin
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
— Frederic Chopin
War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.
— Frederic C. Howe
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
— Frederic Bastiat
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
— Frederic Chopin
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The most trying fools are the bright ones.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.
— Frederic Bastiat
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
— Frederic Bastiat
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
— Frederic William Maitland
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
— Frederic Bastiat
Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
— Frederic Chopin
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
— Frederic Ozanam
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed ...
— Frederic Bastiat
When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.
— Frederic Bastiat
No one borrows money for the sake of the money itself; money is only the medium by which to obtain possession of products.
— Frederic Bastiat
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
— Frederic Bastiat
Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.
— Frederic Goudy
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.
— Frederic C. Howe
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.
— Frederic Bastiat
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
— Henri Frederic Amiel
For me the motley and the bauble, yea,Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
There is no doubt that radium is transformed spontaneously into an active gas, radon, emitting at the same time alpha particles, or helions.
— Frederic Joliot-Curie
Because it's yourself you really ruin, when you make someone else suffer
— Frederic Beigbeder
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
— Frederic Chopin
May your footsteps leave only friends behind.
— Frederic M. Perrin
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
— Frederic William Farrar
Monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.
— Frederic Bastiat
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
— Frederic Goudy
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
— Frederic Chopin
Hope is only the love of life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
— Frederic Bastiat
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
— Frederic Chopin
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness involves pleasure.1 - Aristotle
— Frederic Lenoir
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
— Frederic Chopin
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
— Frederic William Farrar