Quote of Jules Renard: The danger of success is that...
Biography - Jules Renard:
French author.
Born: 1864 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1864 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about danger:
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Quotes for: success
Quotes for: injustice
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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