Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fear created gods; audacity created kings.
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Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]
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Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]
-- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
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God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.
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Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
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Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
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To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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