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Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime.

Quote by Jean Francois Marmontel about ridicule, sublime

Nature is not stingy and wasteful, does't run out: these words are meaningless.

Quote by Jean Francois Marmontel about nature, waste, word

One whose behavior depends on public opinion is never sure of himself.

Quote by Jean Francois Marmontel about opinion, public

The irony is the cheerfulnessof thinking and the joy of wisdom.

Quote by Anatole France about irony, joy, thinking, wisdom

Show to some peopleteh art of enjoing adt show to all, the art of not disliking.

Quote by Anatole France about art, magic

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about vision, history, end

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Quote by Auguste Rodin about good, man, good luck

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Quote by Auguste Rodin about art, artists, pleasure, man, work

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Quote by Françoise de Maintenon about unhappiness, problems

Nothing is more adroit than irreproachable conduct.

Quote by Françoise de Maintenon about conduct, nothing

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about courage

Love without reason lasts the longest.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about love, reason

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about courage

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about things

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about happiness, imagination, ideal, work

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about religion

What is more immoral than wara

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about war

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Quote by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade about order, liberty

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Quote by Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre about politics, secret, people

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Quote by Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre about law, man