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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.


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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Action makes more fortune than caution.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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LUC GIRARD To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.
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LUC BESSON I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.
LUC BESSON I promise I will do two more.
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LUC LONGLEY I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my bud...
JEAN-LUC BILODEAU I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determ...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
JEAN-LUC GODARD All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
JEAN-LUC GODARD To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and th...
JEAN-LUC GODARD The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set a...
JEAN-LUC GODARD I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out t...
JEAN-LUC BILODEAU Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
JEAN-LUC GODARD At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
JEAN-LUC GODARD People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantag...
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JEAN-LUC GODARD Every edit is a lie.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD Photography is truth.
JEAN-LUC GODARD He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
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JEAN-LUC BILODEAU A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled togethe...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
JEAN-LUC GODARD To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD The children of Marx & Coca-Cola.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of r...
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JEAN-LUC GODARD To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I am trying to change the world.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I make film to make time pass.
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JEAN-LUC GODARD The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema ap...
JEAN-LUC GODARD More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'
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DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
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DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
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ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
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CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
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