Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet słynne cytaty
„Największą słabością z wszystkich jest strach przed okazaniem się zbyt słabym”
Źródło: Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (1679, opublikowane w 1709)
„Dobre ustawy, doprowadzone do skrajności psują wszystko.”
Źródło: Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (1679, opublikowane w 1709)
Źródło: Rozprawa o historii powszechnej, 1681
„Zabierz miłość i znikną wszystkie namiętności, dodaj je z powrotem i wszystkie wrócą.”
Źródło: Traité de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi – même (1677)
Źródło: Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (1679, opublikowane w 1709)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Cytaty po angielsku
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
“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
Politics Drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture edited by Patrick Riley (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=3jiGsoP_ExgC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22In+the+midst+of+the+disguises+and+artifices+that+reign+among+men,+it+is+only+attention+and+vigilance+that+can+save+us+from+surprises.%22&source=bl&ots=4D_c7UqG_l&sig=22Djfz_VN-rbiENWgWqpn4s93KI&hl=en&ei=mDZ7S-vRHqX20wSg8t2pCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22In%20the%20midst%20of%20the%20disguises%20and%20artifices%20that%20reign%20among%20men%2C%20it%20is%20only%20attention%20and%20vigilance%20that%20can%20save%20us%20from%20surprises.%22&f=false <br class="br">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
