"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Men Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.”
“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”
“How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!”

Source : Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.164
“Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”

Source : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”
“There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.”
“I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.”

Source : "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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