Jacques Delille quotes
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“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”
-- Jacques DelilleSource : "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.
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“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
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“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
-- Jacques DelilleSource : Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)
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“Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.”
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“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.”
-- Jacques DelilleSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, L'Immortalité de l'Âme, 1922.
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“The sweetest happiness is one that we share .”
-- Jacques Delille
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“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295
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Source : Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."
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“A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.”
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Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90
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