What did Margaret Deland mean by: men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. - Margaret Deland Author · USA Copy
+ it’s better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Crazy, Sanity, Unhappy, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ conceit is the devil’s horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Conceit, Devil, Horse, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can’t be your own judge. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Judging, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ there couldn’t be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Lying, War, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Taste, Unhappiness, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Connections, Modesty, Self, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people’s troubles. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024February 8, 2024, Margaret Deland, Lawyer, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Alive, Desire, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
