"Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear."

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Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.153

StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

#Speak Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in teh hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke.”
“When you're creative and you're going for the top, nothing really matters.”
“Brain cancer has a latency in the population of 40 years.”

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“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.”
“In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”
“What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?”
“Maybe it's good that we are so slow with everything. We were saved from the damages that took place in the last 10 or 15 years in the scene.”
“We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.”

Source : "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.

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