De Erlernte Quotes

#1. There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#2. Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved ... #Quote by Inigo Lopez De Mendoza, 1st Marquis Of Santillana

#4. Strive when your meditation is ended to retain the thoughts and resolutions you have made as your earnest practice throughout the day. This is the real fruit of meditation, without which it is apt to be unprofitable, if not actually harmful - inasmuch as to dwell upon virtues without practising them lends to puff us up with unrealities, until we begin to fancy ourselves all that we have meditated upon and resolved to be; which is all very well if our resolutions are earnest and substantial, but on the contrary hollow and dangerous if they are not put in practice. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#5. You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. #Quote by Luc De Clapiers

#6. Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of our ancestors. We certainly did not evolve to live in cities with millions of people where we bump into strangers everyone we go, are threatened by them in dark streets, sit next to them in the bus, and give them the finger in traffic jams. #Quote by Frans De Waal

#7. We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. Even if our loved ones have assured us that they'll be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going travelling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#9. But, personally, I'm afraid I can't see sheep inside boxes. Perhaps I'm a bit like the grown-ups. I've had to grow old. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#10. The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! #Quote by LeRoy Neiman

#11. Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears. #Quote by John De Mol, Jr.

#12. I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power. #Quote by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#13. Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life's dramas rarely look as dramatic as they are. Our most cataclysmic moments are typically free of gravitas, of necessary thunder; a person dies, but instead of the sky darkening and lightning striking, the sun continues to shine and the birds to sing. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#14. The best thing about my apartment is that it looks over Oscar de la Renta and all the shops. #Quote by Nina Garcia

#15. Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything! #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#16. Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married. #Quote by Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#17. Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. #Quote by Frans De Waal

#18. I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities. #Quote by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

#19. It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things. #Quote by Baron De Montesquieu

#20. True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#21. Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#22. Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool. #Quote by Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#23. The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#24. Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue. #Quote by Marquis De Sade

#25. I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life. #Quote by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#26. A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#27. What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. #Quote by Peter De Vries

#28. You'll have time to rest when you're dead. #Quote by Robert De Niro

#29. Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels. #Quote by Alfred De Musset

#30. I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get. #Quote by Mae West

#31. Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#32. I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs. #Quote by AB De Villiers

#33. There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. #Quote by Marie De France

#34. Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener. #Quote by John De Ruiter

#35. Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#36. Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or feels she is exerting it of her own accord, she is much pleased with her conquests, but to the extent that her face, her figure, her flesh are facts she must bear with, she wants to hide them from this independent stranger who lusts after them. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#37. All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all. #Quote by Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#38. I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. #Quote by Alain De Botton