Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
If one wants to abolish the death penalty in this case, Messrs. murderers should take the first step: they do not kill, we will not kill them.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
(The more things change, the more they stay the same.)
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Virtue is the one and only nobility.
Juvenal
We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.
Juvenal
But who is to guard the guards themselves?
Juvenal
Honesty is praised and starves.
Juvenal
It is difficult not to write satire.
Juvenal
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
Juvenal
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal