Marquis de Lafayette Famous Quotes



Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.


Marquis de Lafayette Quotations






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We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J Peter

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."
Henry Miller

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
Georg W Hegel

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C Maxwell

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage."
Benjamin Disraeli