Jean-Francois de La Harpe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We never forget those who make us blush.
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
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We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
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Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.
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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
-- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
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To kill nothing, that is love.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
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We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.
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I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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