Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Quotes
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
Quotes to Explore
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
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If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.
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Freedom is the world of joy.
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You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
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Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
