Quotes of Jean Baptiste Colbert

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

- Jean Baptiste Colbert

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“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it ”

- Vineet Raj Kapoor