Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

thumb| Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (24 June 1704 – 11 January 1771) was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great. Quotes The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable. Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 33 Constraint is the mother of desires. Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 90 A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 135 External links Category:1704 births Category:1771 deaths Category:Essayists from France Category:Novelists from France Category:Philosophers from France Category:Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences