De Legibus Quotes

The welfare of the people is the highest law ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

My parents kept me very grounded. ~ Danielle De Niese

...without intelligence, there can be no humour. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality ~ Gavin De Becker

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is. ~ Alain De Botton

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust. ~ Alfred De Musset

Taste may change, but inclination never. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says; that means: according to knowledge of experience. And because young people ordinarily do not possess this experiential knowledge, their zeal goes to excess, especially in those who have a natural asperity. ~ Vincent De Paul

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Pity is woman's sweetest charm. ~ Honore De Balzac

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas. ~ Arie De Geus

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl. ~ Anne Rice

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. ~ Honore De Balzac

Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us, as inevitable as the fact that we all write poetry and the fact that every single one of us thinks that he knows everything that there is to know. We are all hospitable to strangers, we all are nostalgic for something, our mothers all treat their grown sons like babies, our sons all treat their mothers a sacred and beat their wives, we all hate solitude, we all try to find out from a stranger whether or not we are related, we all use every long word we know as often as we possibly can, we all go out for a walk in the evening so that we can look over each others' fences, we all think that we are equal to the best. Do you understand?"
The captain was perplexed, "You didn't tell me about the two Greeks inside every Greek."
"I didn't? Well, I must have wandered off the point. ~ Louis De Bernieres

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. ~ Marquis De Sade

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

Shall I think that the Creator has made man so as to leave him to debate endlessly in the intellectual miseries that surround us? I cannot believe this: God prepares a firmer and calmer future for European societies; I am ignorant of his designs, but I will not cease to believe in them [merely] because I cannot penetrate them, and I would rather doubt my enlightenment than his justice. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory. ~ Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. ~ Gerard De Marigny

Embrace the change an obstacle forces. That is my advice. ~ Patrick De Haan CPCU

One can not be just if one is not humane. ~ Luc De Clapiers

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. ~ Robert De Niro

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese. ~ Charles De Gaulle

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. ~ Yvonne De Carlo

One of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11 ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment. ~ Honore De Balzac

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. ~ Michel De Montaigne

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock ... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

If I try to describe him here, it is so as not to forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I do forget him, I might become like those grown-ups who no longer care for anything except figures. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery