Francois Guizot Quotes

• The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

  Francois Guizot

  Investing, World, Pessimist

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• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

  Francois Guizot

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

  Francois Guizot

  Heart, Humility, Light

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• Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

  Francois Guizot

  History, Logic

  François Guizot (1848). “General History of Civilisation in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire Till the French Revolution : Also a Treatise on Death Punishments”, p.98

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• Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

  Francois Guizot

  Needs, Enthusiasm, Can Do

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• The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

  Francois Guizot

  Liberty, Revolution, Spirit

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• Common sense is the genius of mankind.

  Francois Guizot

  Common Sense, Genius, Common

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• The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

  Francois Guizot

  Soul, Doe, Virtue

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• It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

  Francois Guizot

  Heart, Numbers, Triumph

  François Guizot (1846). “The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution”, p.134

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• If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

  Francois Guizot

  Should Have, Years, Has Beens

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