Famous quotes containing the words duc de, duc and/or duras:
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)