Frases de Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

“En Egipto se llamaban a las bibliotecas el tesoro de los remedios del alma. En efecto, curábase en ellas de la ignorancia, la más peligrosa de las enfermedades y el origen de todas las demás.”

Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 397.

“La más peligrosa de todas las debilidades es el temor de parecer débil.”

Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 51.

“No es bueno que todo suceda como deseamos. Cuando todo nos sonríe en el mundo, nos apegamos a éste muy fácilmente y el encanto es muy fuerte. Por eso, y porque Dios nos ama, no permite que durmamos mucho y muy cómodamente en este lugar de destierro.”

“Repara uno sus faltas cuando llora.”

“La vida humana se parece a un camino cuya salida es un precipicio horroroso; nos advierten de ello desde los primeros pasos; pero el decreto está ya pronunciado: es preciso adelantar siempre sin poder retroceder.”

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet Frases y Citas

“Las virtudes que se ostentan son vanas y falsas virtudes.”

Fuente: El Eco de los siglos: tesoro de máximas, sentencias, pensamientos, proverbios, axiomas y dichos agudos. Editorial Imp Ignacio Olivarer, 1843. p. 16.

“La posesión de la riqueza tiene lazos invisibles en donde el corazón se enreda fácilmente.”

Fuente: Trejo Paiz, Marco Tulio. ¿Libertad de expresión?. Editora Educativa, 2009. p. 232.

“La meditación es el ojo del alma.”

Fuente: Arrabal, Fernando. La dudosa luz del día. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Espasa Calpe, 1994. ISBN 9788423977208. p. 256.

“Hay dos clases de arrepentimiento: el falso que viene del fracaso y el verdadero que viene de la conciencia de haberlo hecho mal.”

“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: Frases en inglés

“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”

Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)

“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.”

As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) edited by Norbert Guterman

“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”

Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411

“In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.”

Quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96

“Nature, or to speak in more Christian fashion, God, the common Father of men, from the outset gave equal rights to all his children to all the things they needed to preserve their lives. None of us can boast of being more privileged than the rest by nature; but through the insatiable desire to amass wealth, it became impossible for this beautiful brotherhood to endure for long in the world. Men had to resort to division and possession, which resulted in constant quarrels and litigation; of this were born the words 'mine' and 'thine'—such cold terms, as the admirable St. John Chrysostom remarks—of this, too, was born the great diversity of conditions, some living in affluence in every respect, others languishing in penury.”

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