Jean-Francois Regnard

Jean-Francois Regnard
Jean-François Regnard, "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681...
Jean-Francois Regnard quotes about
able good-things possessing
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
discipline knows know-how
To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
heart brave peril
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
danger
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
hate reason
We love without reason, and without reason we hate.