There comes a time when one should wake up to reality. Some do so soon after birth, others take a lifetime, some never do.


Michael de Châtillon

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The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
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Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH
You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON
You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE
I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON
We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF
There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN
I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO
To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA
I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN
I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN
There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN
I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE
Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND
The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND