Quotes by french authors

I hate victims who respect their executioners. Jean-Paul Sartre
Respect Hate Victims Who
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Jean Cocteau
Art Marriage Unconscious Conscious
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
Love Kindness People Consists More Part Than Loving Deserve
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
Love Day Religion Soul Speak Will Men Free Seen Understanding Nothing Skin Birth Way Brotherhood Born More Color Throw Weight Come Surely Dice Than Places Breeds Means Uniquely Tone
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
Time Dangerous Dream Dreaming More Cure Little Less
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. Marie de France
Fool World Impress Thinking Loudly
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. Michel de Montaigne
Yourself Others Give Lend
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. Montesquieu
Religion Intolerance Religious Total Spirit Religious Wars Eclipse More Only Fact Spread Caused Than Human Regarded Which Reason Wars Human Reason
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. Napoleon Bonaparte
Change Every Must Superiority Ten Ten Years Tactics Maintain Wishes Years
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. Napoleon Bonaparte
Needs Men Consideration Ability Only Take Never
We are made to know and love God. Nicolas Malebranche
Love God Made Know
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored. Nostradamus
Fire Exhausted Imitations Everyone Earthquake Out Rapture Restored Silver Wiped Thrown Split Pillar Debt Vexing Inflated Gold After Which Then Dedicated Flood Found Saturn Fourth Bonds
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. Patrick Demarchelier
Dog Perfect He Camera Subject Aware Portrait Pose
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Paul Gauguin
Art Beauty Become Otherwise Philosophy Would Just Requires
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Paul Valery
Work Abandon Finishes Never He Merely His Artist Really
Art will never be able to exist without nature. Pierre Bonnard
Art Nature Will Able Never Without Exist
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Music Great Nature Beauty Expectation Sense Awareness Universe Seem Nostalgia Which Confronted Us Presence
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir
Society Cares Only Individual He Far Profitable
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal
Love Fears Our Pleasures Proportion Always
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo
Better Paradise Stupid Hell Would Would-Be Intelligent Than
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. Voltaire
Life Death Fear Enjoy Life No Fear Nothing Enjoy Secret Safest Course Against Conscience
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. Voltaire
Wife Husband Himself Surprise Surprised His Very Often Decide Much Who
Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire
Clever Tyrants Punished Never
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus
Stupidity Way Knack Getting
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus
Man Respect Rebellion Meet Meeting Minds Must Limits Exist Discovers Itself Begin Where Order Rebel
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus
People Cause Matter Innocent Will Defends Innocent People Crowds Attacks Blind Permanent Disgrace Suffer
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