Claudine Guerin de Tencin quotes

Claudine Guerin de Tencin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
-- Claudine Guerin de Tencin

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“One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.”
-- Claudine Guerin de Tencin

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“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”
“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”
“Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'”
“It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.”
“Iâ€™ll be back tomorrow,â€ he said, â€œat nine oâ€™clock. Donâ€™t open your door to anyone else.â€ â€œNot even my balcony door?â€ â€œEspecially not your balcony door.”
“Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.”

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