Marie de Gournay quotes
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“Ignorance is the mother of presumption”
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“Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.”
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“whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.”
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“the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.”
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“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal ...”
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“certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.”
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“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.”
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“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.”
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“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”
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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
Source : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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“Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”
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