We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .
How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.