Antoine Francois Fourcroy Quotes

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity. ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion! ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires. ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a table of white marble. ~ Victor Hugo

May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits! ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Lying gets all the recompenses, then, while despair and loneliness are the rewards of constancy and fidelity. ~ Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Once it was believed that to bring these creatures to manhood it was enough to feed them, clothe them, and look to their everyday needs; but we see now that the result of this has been to turn out petty shopkeepers, village politicians, hollow technicians devoid of an inner life. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us. ~ Francois Fenelon

My adversary is the world of finance. ~ Francois Hollande

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing. ~ Francois Hollande

16:20 God who is the author of our peace shall quickly and utterly trample 1Satan, doing it with your feet. Your victory is realized in the revelation of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and echoed (personalized) in your amen. (We are the body of Christ. God desires to demonstrate his reign of peace in us by confirming satan's defeat in our practical day to day experience. The defeat of 1accusation is celebrated in what grace communicates. The word, 1satanos, means accuser. The law of faith defeated the law of works!) ~ Francois Du Toit

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level. ~ Francois Hollande

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. ~ Francois Truffaut

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people. ~ Francois Duvalier

Time spent in prayer is never wasted. ~ Francois Fenelon

You know ... when you are sad you love the sunsets. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism. ~ Francois Hollande

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery