George Sand Quotes

“To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.”

“Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.”

“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”

“O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.”

“Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

“Gossiping is the plague of little towns.”

“You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.”

“Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”

“Where love is absent there can be no woman.”

“Not to love is to cease to live.”

“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.”

“Nature distributes her favors unequally.”

“There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.”

“It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.”

“The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.”

“Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.”

“One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.”

“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”

“I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.”

“One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.”

“Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.”

“Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.”