Jacques Delille quotes

“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”
-- Jacques Delille

Source : "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.”
-- Jacques Delille

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“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
-- Jacques Delille

Source : Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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“Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.”
-- Jacques Delille

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“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.”
-- Jacques Delille

Source : "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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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.”

“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

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

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."

“A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.”

“What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1845). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.90