Quotes from Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

With patience everything comes in due season.

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.