Top 16 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Quotes

#1. Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

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#2. Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

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#3. Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

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#4. Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

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#5. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

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#6. The world itself makes us sick of the world.

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#7. To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

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#8. The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

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#9. The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

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#10. The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

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#11. The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

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#12. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

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#13. Every error is truth abused.

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#14. An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

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#15. In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

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#16. O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

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