“The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.”
Quotes by Benjamin Constant
“Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
Benjamin ConstantHenri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, known as Benjamin Constant, was a prominent Swiss and French political thinker, activist, and writer whose contributions to political theory and literature left a ...