Francois Guizot quotes
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“Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.”
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“Nothing falsifies history more than logic.”
-- Francois GuizotSource : François Guizot (1848). “General History of Civilisation in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire Till the French Revolution : Also a Treatise on Death Punishments”, p.98
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“Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.”
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“It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.”
-- Francois GuizotSource : François Guizot (1846). “The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution”, p.134
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“The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty”
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“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.”
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“The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.”
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“The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.”
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“If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.”
-- Francois Guizot
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“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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“Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.”
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“The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.”
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