Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne famous quotes

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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Women are the guardians of morality.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.
-- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.