Quotes by French Authors - Page 22

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.
Mme. de Maintenon
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine or to "image forth."
Dane Rudhyar
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.
Honoré de Balzac
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos
To hope is to enjoy.
Jacques Delille
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
Michel de Montaigne
All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
Jacques Cousteau
Patience is the art of hoping.
Vauvenargues
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Vauvenargues
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
François de La Rochefoucauld
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
Joseph Roux
Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
La Rochefoucauld
Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Ernest Renan
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Vauvenargues
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
No man is a hero to his valet.
Mme. de Cornuel
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.
Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de La Bruyère
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Madame De Maintenon
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anaïs Nin
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
Michel de Montaigne
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
Denis Diderot
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
Simone de Beauvoir
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
Vauvenargues
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
Therese of Lisieux
Kindness causes us to learn and to forget many things.
Madame Swetchine
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
In this world we must help one another.
Jean de La Fontaine
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Marguerite de Valois
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Hell madame is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.
Anaïs Nin
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Françoise Sagan
Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.
Ninon de l'Enclos
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
We love without reason and without reason we hate.
Jean-Frangois Regnard
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld
A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil