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Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

Geburtstag: 27. September 1627
Todesdatum: 12. April 1704
Andere Namen:Jacques B. Bossuet

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet war ein französischer Bischof und Autor. Er leistete einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Geschichtsphilosophie und gilt den Franzosen als Klassiker unter ihren Kanzelrednern.

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„Die größte Schwäche ist zu fürchten, schwach zu erscheinen.“

— Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Politik gezogen aus den Worten der Heiligen Schrift

„Gute Grundsätze, zum Extrem geführt, verderben alles.“

— Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Politik gezogen aus den Worten der Heiligen Schrift

„Nehmt die Liebe weg, und es bleiben keine Leidenschaften; setzt sie hinzu, und diese werden alle wieder geboren.“

— Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Von der Erkenntnis Gottes und seiner selbst

Über Liebe, Über Leidenschaft, Über Liebe

„Inmitten der Verschleierungen und Kunstgriffe die über die Menschen herrscht, ist es nur die Aufmerksamkeit und Wachsamkeit, die uns vor Überraschungen retten kann.“

— Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

Über Menschen

„Es gibt keinen Zufall in der Regelung der menschlichen Dinge, und Glück ist ein Wort ohne Sinn.“

— Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Politik gezogen aus den Worten der heiligen Schrift

Über Glück

„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.“

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
"Panegyric in honor of St. Francis of Assisi", as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 84

„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.“

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

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

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) edited by Norbert Guterman

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

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

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

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Politics Drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture edited by Patrick Riley (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=3jiGsoP_ExgC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22In+the+midst+of+the+disguises+and+artifices+that+reign+among+men,+it+is+only+attention+and+vigilance+that+can+save+us+from+surprises.%22&source=bl&ots=4D_c7UqG_l&sig=22Djfz_VN-rbiENWgWqpn4s93KI&hl=en&ei=mDZ7S-vRHqX20wSg8t2pCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22In%20the%20midst%20of%20the%20disguises%20and%20artifices%20that%20reign%20among%20men%2C%20it%20is%20only%20attention%20and%20vigilance%20that%20can%20save%20us%20from%20surprises.%22&f=false