Quotes by French Authors - Page 26

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.
Antoinette Deshouliere
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Michel de Montaigne
We are never content with our lot.
Jean de La Fontaine
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Nicolas Boileau
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
François de La Rochefoucauld
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Jean Francois Regnard
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
André Gide
Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Francois de Fenelon
Long only for what you have.
André Gide
It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Joseph Joubert
Better to suffer than to die.
Jean de La Fontaine
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Joseph Joubert
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel
Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
Honoré de Balzac
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
For me it's not possible to forget and I don't understand people who when the love is ended can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Who understands much forgives much.
Madame de Stael
Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.
Napoleon
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.
François Rabelais
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
Nicolas Boileau
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
Molière
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
St. Francis de Sales
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
Jean de La Fontaine
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon
It is the same in love as in war a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Marguerite de Valois
We have here other fish to fry.
François Rabelais
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.
Cardinal de Retz
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus
Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.
Georges Bernanos
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de St. Exupery
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
It is a long road from conception to completion.
Molière
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
Sophie Rostopchine Sigur
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
La Rochefoucauld
Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Fashions fade - style is eternal.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
Igor Stravinsky
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau