"It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others."

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Source : duc de François La Rochefoucauld, François La Rochefoucauld (duc de), King of Poland Stanisław, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.173

StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

“It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.”
“Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.”
“When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it”
“I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.”
“I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.”
“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
“You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.”

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