Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Le sort fait les parens, le choix fait les amis.

Jacques Delille

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Friends and family Friends Family

Author

Jacques Delille

Source

Malheur Et Pitié

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Another quote about Friends

One soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Diogenes Laërtius
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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Time
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Classical antiquity
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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 20.

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Aristotle. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 20.

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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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Simone de Beauvoir
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The Second Sex
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Historical literature Feminist literature
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1949 1940s 20th century
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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.