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Without work, talent is nothing but a bad habit.

Quote by Georges Brassens about work, habits, bad luck, talent, bad, nothing

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Quote by Georges Bizet about music, art, magic

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Quote by Georges Bizet about opinion, crime, criminals, writing, contentment

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Quote by Georges Bizet about religion, injustice, ambition, vice

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Quote by Georges Jacques Danton about victory, order, need

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Quote by Georges Jacques Danton about politics, authority

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Quote by Georges Jacques Danton about enemies, contentment

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Quote by George Washington about happiness, duty, moral

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Quote by George Washington about solitude, opinion, companies, bad luck, bad

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Quote by George Washington about god, nation, impossible

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Quote by George Washington about liberty

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Quote by George Washington about war, wish, earth

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Quote by George Washington about opinion

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power

Quote by George Meredith about woman, treasure, beauty, power

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Quote by George Meredith about victory, contentment

There is nothing the body suffers, the soul may not profit by.

Quote by George Meredith about soul, body, nothing

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Quote by George Meredith about pray, man

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

Quote by George Berkeley about people, animals, man

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Quote by George Berkeley about truth, games

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Quote by George Berkeley about philosophy