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My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
— Jean-Francois Ducis
Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
— Jean-Francois Millet
A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.
— Jean-Francois Cope
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
— Jean-Francois Cope
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.
— Jean-Francois Manzoni
Because life, no matter what it is like, must be lived, and because to live is not merely to survive; it is to laugh, to think, to write.
— Jean-Francois Steiner
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.
— Jean-Francois Millet
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
... Desire baffles knowledge and power.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
— Jean-Francois Millet
What is necessary is never a risk.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
To exaggerate is to weaken.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
— Jean-Francois Cope
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
— Jean Francois Revel
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
In a major matter no details are small.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.
— Jean-Francois Millet
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
— Jean-Francois Cope
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
— Jean-Francois Cope
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
We never forget those who make us blush.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
— Jean Francois Revel
We weaken what we exaggerate.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
— Jean-Francois Millet
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
— Francois Rabelais
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
People are afraid of everything.
— Jean-Francois Cope
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
There are no small steps in great affairs.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.
— Jean Francois Revel
Photography has not invented anything.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
