Jean Baptiste Tavernier Quotes

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates ... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament ... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing. ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it! ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}

Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it. ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so. ~ Andrew Miller

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. ~ Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy! ... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert

The great men of antiquity were poor. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor". ~ Albert Camus

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced. ~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'. ~ Ernest Nagel

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

So pink and swollen,Jean-Baptiste whispered,his fingers easing her lips apart,one brushing over the sensitive bud of her clit. ~ Laura Wright

Who am I? Who am I?"
"You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs. You're a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen. You're a swimmer. You're a baker. You're a cook. You're a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You're an excellent pianist. You're an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I'm away. You're patient. You're generous. You're the best listener I know. You're the smartest person I know, in every way. You're the bravest person I know, in every way. You're a lawyer. You're the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it. You're a mathematician. You're a logician. You've tried to teach me, again and again. You were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you."

"And who are you?"
"I'm Willem Ragnarsson. And I will never let you go. ~ Hanya Yanagihara