“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
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Famous Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Quotes
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) edited by Norbert Guterman
Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”
Quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96
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Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
"Panegyric in honor of St. Francis of Assisi", as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 84
