“A maior fraqueza de todas as fraquezas é a temer aparecer muito fraco.”
Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet foi um bispo e teólogo francês, um dos principais teóricos do absolutismo por direito divino, defendendo o argumento que o governo era divino e que os reis recebiam seu poder de Deus.
Foi autor de La Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte, publicada postumamente em 1709, na qual defende a teoria do Direito divino dos reis justificando que Deus delegava o poder político aos monarcas, conferindo-lhes autoridade ilimitada e incontestável. O caso mais exemplar de governante que adotou as ideias de Bossuet foi Luís XIV de França, chamado "Rei Sol".
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“A maior fraqueza de todas as fraquezas é a temer aparecer muito fraco.”
Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte
“Só grandes almas sabem a grandeza existe na caridade.”
citado em "Quote Unquote: A Handbook of Quotations" - Page 96 - by M. P. Singh - 2007
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Fonte: Citações da Cultura Universal - Página 21, Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
“Não falemos mais de acaso e de sorte, ou então citemo-los apenas para ocultar a nossa ignorância”
Let us stop talking of chance or luck or at most speak of them as mere words that cover our ignorance.
Jacques Bossuet citado em Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology, página 28 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=XQO4AJOGtSIC&pg=PT28, R. C. Sproul - Baker Books, 1999, ISBN 1441231587, 9781441231581
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“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) edited by Norbert Guterman
Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”
Quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96
Politics Drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture edited by Patrick Riley (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=3jiGsoP_ExgC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22In+the+midst+of+the+disguises+and+artifices+that+reign+among+men,+it+is+only+attention+and+vigilance+that+can+save+us+from+surprises.%22&source=bl&ots=4D_c7UqG_l&sig=22Djfz_VN-rbiENWgWqpn4s93KI&hl=en&ei=mDZ7S-vRHqX20wSg8t2pCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22In%20the%20midst%20of%20the%20disguises%20and%20artifices%20that%20reign%20among%20men%2C%20it%20is%20only%20attention%20and%20vigilance%20that%20can%20save%20us%20from%20surprises.%22&f=false
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
"Panegyric in honor of St. Francis of Assisi", as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 84