French author Quotes

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”

“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

“Friends should be preferred to kings.”

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”

“The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.”

“It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.”

“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”

“While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.”

“When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.”

“A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.”

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”

“A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.”

“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”

“Those who live are those who fight.”

“In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.”

“Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

“Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.”

“Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.”

“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”

“The true artist can only labor con amore.”

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”