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French playwright and actor 1622–1673Related quotes
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“Men die but sorrow never dies.”
The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey (1975).
“Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.”
Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
“some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
Speech in the House of Commons, May 17, 1916 "Royal Assent" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1916/may/17/royal-assent#column_1578.
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”
Said upon the death of President Garfield, as quoted in Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 8 (1897).
1880s
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”
Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Often known as Hanlon's razor, this was attributed to Napoleon without source in Message Passing Server Internals (2003) by Bill Blunden, p. 15, ISBN 0071416382
Misattributed