"He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign."

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Source : "Hist. de France", Volume II, (p. 30) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 682-686), 1922.

Louis XI of France

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“When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.”
“History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.”
“For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.”
“One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.”

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“I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.”
“A great doctor kills more people than a great general.”
“Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.”

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