Famous quotes containing the words light and/or pattern:
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)