Jean-Baptiste Colbert Quotes

• The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Art, Business, Religion

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• When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Kings, Office, Fool

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• El objetivo es desplumar las ocas de manera que se obtenga el mayor número de plumas con el menor silbido posible.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Numbers, Pluck, Hissing

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