Madeleine de Scudery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
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The only rose without thorns is friendship.
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Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
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A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
-- Madeleine de Scudery
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And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.
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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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