Exercicios De Matematica Quotes

Gentleness succeeds better than violence. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The highest skill is the true judgment of values. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

I 'uz mos' to de foot er de islan' b'fo' I found' a good place. I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn' fool wid raffs no mo', long as dey move de lantern roun' so. I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right. ~ Mark Twain

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! ~ Honore De Balzac

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels. ~ Ines De La Fressange

It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! ~ Marquis De Sade

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie. ~ Brian De Palma

One can train dolphins to jump synchronously because they do so in the wild, and one can teach horses to run together at the same pace because wild horses do the same. ~ Frans De Waal

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music. ~ Charles De Lint

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

I do not question anyone anymore. I drink coffee and I live. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

But the reality is that it is impossible to explain, to verbalize, to articulate the fear that they instill in you. The people who judge, the people who criticize, who don't get it - you have to understand, they're coming at the situation from a position of safety, of security, of self-esteem. You cannot imagine, when you're well and safe and contented, that you could ever feel otherwise. When you're in it... it's like a vortex, a dark, whirling whirlpool that swallows up everything that you ever thought was you, your thoughts, your values, your beliefs, and leaves you with an empty, shattered shell. And that shell, you realize painfully, gradually, is you. ~ Jeannette De Beauvoir

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them. ~ Salvador De Madariaga

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice. ~ Frans De Waal

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires. ~ Bernard De Mandeville

He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man ... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. ~ Elsie De Wolfe

She was the most beautiful treasure I have ever seen; hidden in the depth of the ocean, waiting for someone to pull her out. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. ~ Edward De Bono

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

All that is literature seeks to communicate power ~ Thomas De Quincey

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom ~ John De Ruiter

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ~ Honore De Balzac

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. ~ Ferdinand De Saussure

If they who are appointed to instruct and rule over men had wisdom and virtue themselves, realities, and not fantasies, would enable them to govern better; but scoundrels, quacksalvers, ambitious ruffians, or low sneaks, the lawgivers have ever found it easier to lull nations to sleep with bedtime tales than to teach truths to the public, than to develop intelligence in the population, than to encourage men to virtue by making it worthwhile for sound and palpable reasons, than, in short, to govern them in a logical manner. ~ Marquis De Sade

There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!
Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made! ~ Guy De Maupassant

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic ... the term "mores" ... meaning ... habits of the heart. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. ~ Ninette De Valois

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful. ~ Guy De Maupassant

As his mind continues to drift away from his body, he had one final realization. The world itself was alive, too. It swirled around you and sped past your eyes and ears, so fast you could never see it, but slow at the same time, like a tree growing taller in a park. And all the sounds you hears-the wind whipping past your ears and the ocean's whispering and the tickle of the whitecaps against your boat-that was earth's blood pumping through imperceptible veins, and some of those veins were nothing more than people like Shy or Carmen, or Addie. ~ Matt De La Pena

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds. ~ Thomas De Maiziere

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it. ~ Michel De Montaigne

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself. ~ Alfred De Musset