Falsehood always seeks to imitate the truth.
~Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Category: wisdom
Quotes – Success As A Foregone Conclusion
The winning side is most widely applauded when the victory is evident.
~Patrick O’Brian
Quotes – From Where Revolutions Stem
Political trials are always vain formalities; for the very passions that produce the accusation also lead to the condemnation. Such is the terrible logic of revolutions.
~Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
Quotes – The Heights of Criticism
Very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.
~George Eliot, Middlemarch
Quotes – Sycophancy
As long as a man is in command, be he the worst of fools, there are people around him committed to the belief that he commands well.
~Maurice Druon
Quotes – The Boldness of Stupidity
Stupidity is no bar to enterprise; on the contrary, it tends to conceal difficulties which an intelligent man would consider insuperable.
~Maurice Druon
Quotes – The Veracity of History
It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.
~Stendhal
Quotes – The Risks of a Regal Soul
It is a great misfortune to be born with the soul of a king if one is not destined to reign.
~Maurice Druon
Quotes – Foundations of Friendship
The best friendships are based on mutual interest and common plans for the future.
~Maurice Druon
Quotes – When Courage Falters
There are lists in which the bravest of warriors prove themselves singularly clumsy.
~Maurice Druon, The She Wolf
