Top 16 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Quotes
#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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