"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."

-- Jean Racine

#Believe Quotes #Said Quotes #Sincerely Quotes

“... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does.”
“O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”
“The successful painter is continually painting still life.”
“I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.”
“My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.”
“Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.”
“At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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