Édouard René de Laboulaye
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (18 January 1811 – 25 May 1883) was a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. An attentive observer of the political life of the United States and admirer of the American constitution, he originated the idea of a statue presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
Attributed
[edit]Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
[edit]- Reported in: Charles Noel Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)
- God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.
- Patience—in patience there is safety.
- Patience—with patience everything comes in due season.
- Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds.
- The desert is mute, and dead men tell no tales.
- The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.
- Truth is like a pearl: he alone possesses it who has plunged into the depths of life and torn his hands on the rocks of Time.
- Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man.
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Édouard René de Laboulaye on Wikipedia
