Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Quotes

• The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Believe, Want, Spirit

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• The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Heartbreak, Positivity

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• Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Queens, Truth, Heart

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• The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Fear, Weakness, Too Much

  "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture". Book by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, edited by Patrick Riley, 1990.

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• Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Heart, Soul

  "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.

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• To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Self, Way, Horror

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• Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Eye, Precious Stones, Honor

  "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman, (p. 411), 1997.

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• The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Weakness, Weak, Appearing

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• An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

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• The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  World, Charity, Four

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• Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Ignorance, Calamity, Wells

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• I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• Every error is truth abused.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Errors

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• In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Men, Attention, Reign

  Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Patrick Riley (1990). “Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• The world itself makes us sick of the world.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Work, Sick, World

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• Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Character, Preparation

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• The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Boredom, Inexorable

  "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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• O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Death, Ignorance, Light

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