Benjamin Constant's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#10025
Some Governments, when they send their legions from one pole to the other, are still talking about the defense of their homes; looks like they call their homes all the places where they set the fire.

Benjamin Constant
(De l'esprit de conquête)

#10026
Arbitrariness is morale that the plague is in the physical.

Benjamin Constant
(De l'esprit de conquête)

#10027
Tender mother! You can't leave me, even in my dreams.

Benjamin Constant
(Le Diable amoureux)

#10028
We must decide, Act and shut up.

Benjamin Constant
(Journal intime)

#10029
Each individual has within itself a coalition that is a civil war. Death is the great peacemaker.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10030
Only the heart can plead his case.

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10031
I'll always be your friend; I'll always have the deepest affection for you. These two years of our relationship will never fade from my memory; they will always be the most beautiful time of my life. But love, you see, this transport of the senses, this involuntary intoxication, this oversight of all interests and all the homework, I never saw

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10032
We talked about love for fear of us talk about something else.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10033
The multiplicity of laws flatters in legislators two natural inclinations, the need for action and fun to believe necessary.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10034
We must thank the men as possible because the recognition shown easily persuades them that they are too!

Benjamin Constant
(Journal intime)

#10035
Most of the men in politics, as in all, conclude their recklessness results the firmness of their principles.

Benjamin Constant
(Journal intime)

#10036
Men who are said to be hard are in fact far more sensitive than those which it boasts expansive sensitivity. They are hard because their sensibility, being real, made them suffer.

Benjamin Constant
(Journal intime)

#10037
The war and trade are two different ways to achieve the same goal: the right to own what you desire.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10038
How it is better to suffer oppression of enemies that blush from the excesses of his allies.

Benjamin Constant
(De la liberté chez les modernes)

#10039
The excess of taxes led to the subversion of justice, the deterioration in morality, to the destruction of individual freedom.

Benjamin Constant
(Principes de politique)

#10040
Death, unexplainable mystery, whose daily experience seems to have not yet convinced the men.

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10041
As soon as a man has the necessary, it does to the elevation in the soul to do without the superfluous.

Benjamin Constant
(Principes de politique)

#10042
The feelings that we pretend, we test them.

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10043
I'm too skeptical to be faithless.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10044
The right to the insurgency belongs to anyone, or it belongs to everyone. No class can make a monopoly of the insurgency.

Benjamin Constant
(Discours - 23 Février 1825)

#10045
The only guarantee of the citizens against the arbitrary, this is advertising.

Benjamin Constant
(Observations sur le discours prononcé par S.E. le ministre de l'intérieur - 20 Août 1814)

#10046
Riddle of the world, I fear that she has only two words: spread for pain for individuals and species.

Benjamin Constant
(Journal)

#10047
Peoples, who have more votes have not less memory.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10048
The precautions he took to make this feeling point realised were precisely what made him come true.

Benjamin Constant
(Cécile)

#10049
Woe to the man who, in the early stages of an affair of love, does not believe that this binding must be eternal!

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10050
This is a great advantage in the business of life to know how to take the offensive: the man attacked deal always.

Benjamin Constant
(Journal intime)

#10051
We are so mobile creatures that the feelings that we pretend, we end up experiencing them.

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10052
The recognition has a short memory.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10053
It is a terrible misfortune to be not liked when we love. But it's a much greater to be loved with passion when you love more.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10054
If I showed me to others as I am, they would believe me crazy. But if they were to me what they are, maybe would I believe them crazy also?

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10055
As soon as there is a secret between two hearts who love each other, as soon as one of them was able to bring himself to hide one idea to another, the spell is broken, the happiness is destroyed.

Benjamin Constant
(Adolphe)

#10056
Almost all of the old Governments are sweet because they are old and new Governments hard, because they are new.

Benjamin Constant
(Le cahier rouge)

#10057
Don't be obstinate in maintaining that collapses, nor too eager in the establishment of what appears to be announced.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10058
Entrust his own defence in the future to the past its own fulfillment.

Benjamin Constant
(Source inconnue)

#10059
I feel an inexpressible charm to walk in blind front what I fear.

Benjamin Constant
(Lettre)

#10060
The variety is of the Organization; uniformity, is the mechanism. The variety is life; uniformity, is death.

Benjamin Constant
(De l'esprit de la conquête et de l'usurpation)

#10061
The ridiculous attack anything, and does not destroy anything.

Benjamin Constant
(De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation)

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