Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
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Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
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It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.
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Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.
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Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.
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The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.
-- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
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I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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