What did John Vanbrugh mean by: Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me. - John Vanbrugh Architect · England Copy
+ Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more’s a task too hard for mortals Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Vanbrugh, Past, Sin, Tasks, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ Virtue is its own reward. There’s a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Vanbrugh, History, Pay, Rewards, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ He laughs best who laughs last. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, John Vanbrugh, Laughing, Laughter, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ Love’s like virtue, its own reward. Feraz Zeid, July 8, 2023December 12, 2023, John Vanbrugh, Love, Rewards, Virtue, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Vanbrugh, Desire, Enough, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Vanbrugh, Heart, Sex, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ A slighted woman knows no bounds. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, John Vanbrugh, Bounds, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
+ True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Vanbrugh, Virtue, 0 - John Vanbrugh Architect · England
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
You’re an Attorney. It’s your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
