Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste quotes
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“He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.”
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“The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.”
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“Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.”
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“There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.”
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“To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.”
-- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.”
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“Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.”
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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“Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”
Source : David Wagoner (1999). “Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems”, p.10, University of Illinois Press
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