Quotes by Jean François Marmontel

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Envy: ... mixture of esteem and hatred for the advantages you don't have.

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Full conviction does not belong exclusively to certainty, it belongs to the necessity to believe, and man feels this necessity to believe in what is good to undertake.

"Earth is the great gift which nature gave to people, and the birth of every person in this world should give him the right to possess this earth. And this right should be as natural as the right of a person to have the breast of his mother."