Jacques Bénigne Bossuet frasi celebri
“La più grande debolezza è il sacro terrore di sembrare deboli.”
Origine: Da Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte.
“Per cantare sapientemente a Dio bisogna sempre più imparare con erudizione e con intelligenza.”
Origine: Dalla lettera che accompagnava la sua Dissertatio de Psalmis; citato in Gianfranco Ravasi, L'incontro: ritrovarsi nella preghiera, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2014, p. 109. ISBN 978-88-04-63591-8
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: Frasi in inglese
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) edited by Norbert Guterman
Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411
“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”
Quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96
Politics Drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture edited by Patrick Riley (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=3jiGsoP_ExgC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22In+the+midst+of+the+disguises+and+artifices+that+reign+among+men,+it+is+only+attention+and+vigilance+that+can+save+us+from+surprises.%22&source=bl&ots=4D_c7UqG_l&sig=22Djfz_VN-rbiENWgWqpn4s93KI&hl=en&ei=mDZ7S-vRHqX20wSg8t2pCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22In%20the%20midst%20of%20the%20disguises%20and%20artifices%20that%20reign%20among%20men%2C%20it%20is%20only%20attention%20and%20vigilance%20that%20can%20save%20us%20from%20surprises.%22&f=false
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
"Panegyric in honor of St. Francis of Assisi", as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), p. 84