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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Victor Hugo
Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
Paul Bourget
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
Albert Schweitzer
The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
Blaise Pascal
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
André Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
André Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
André Gide
As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Blaise Pascal
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
Jean de La Bruyère
It is now and in this world that we must live.
André Gide
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.
Igor Stravinsky
Live now believe me wait not till tomorrow gather the roses of life today.
Pierre de Ronsard
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La Fontaine
The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.
Marcel Proust
Our life is like some vast lake that is slowly filling with the stream of our years. As the waters creep surely upward the landmarks of the past are one by one submerged. But there shall always be memory to lift its head above the tide until the lake is overflowing.
Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anaïs Nin
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
The worst time is always the present.
Jean de La Fontaine
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
La Rochefoucauld
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
The world will be saved by one or two people.
André Gide
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
Anatole France
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
Bernard de Fontenelle
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
Edouard Manet
I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.
Jean Giraudoux
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Napoleon
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.
Napoleon
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.
Charles Montesquieu
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
Voltaire
The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Marguerite de Valois
I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
Napoleon
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexander Dumas
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles Montesquieu
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
Jean de La Bruyère
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
Jean Cocteau
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Joseph Roux
Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.
Jeanne Moreau
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