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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Stendhal
When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
Anaïs Nin
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Jacques Cousteau
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Vauvenargues
Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
François de La Rochefoucauld
All passions exaggerate it is because they do that they are passions.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.
Claude Helvetius
You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves my unexploited resources perhaps my future.
E. M. Cioran
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
Georges Clémenceau
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Marquis Caraccioli
Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.
Voltaire
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
Voltaire
The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.
La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.
La Rochefoucauld
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Pascal
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Raymond Queneau
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Joseph Joubert
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
Henry IV
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
François Rabelais
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Sebastien Chamfort
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Alexandre Dumas
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
André Gide
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
We are not certain we are never certain.
Albert Camus
Who loves me will love my dog also.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Leon Gambetta
Women distrust men too much in general and too little in particular.
Philibert Commerson
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Mme. Louise Colet
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Anatole France
Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
Georges de Buffon
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
He who desires naught will always be free.
E. R. Lefebvre Laboulaye
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
La Rochefoucauld
Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.
E. M. Cioran
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Pascal
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