Philippe de Commines quotes

Philippe de Commines quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.”
-- Philippe de Commines

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“That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.”
-- Philippe de Commines

#Good Sense Quotes #Acquire Quotes

“I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'”
“The art of life is loving and listening to one another.”
“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
“John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!”
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
“For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.”
“Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”
“I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.”
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".
“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”

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