Quotes by french authors

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville

Best People Will Others Despise Those Out Never Get Themselves

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal

Religion Must Divine Known Human Human Beings Loved Beings

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal

Love Before Ourselves Seem Were Quite Different

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Cardinal Richelieu

Me You Will Men Find Give Something Give Me Written Most Him Lines Hand Hang Six Which Them Honest

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. Charles Peguy

Truth Liars He Himself Knows Makes Does Accomplice Who

The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heart Fooled Always Intellect

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Frederic Bastiat

Live State Everyone Forget Expense Wants

No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand

Love Give Human Orders To Love Creature

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. Georges Bernanos

Together Peace Gardening Little Things Nothing Air Those Seem Give Individually Like Perfume Which Meadow Little Things Flowers

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson

Change Oneself Go Exist Mature Endlessly Creating

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. Honore de Balzac

Man Husband Lover Silent He Converse

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. Jean-Luc Godard

Fly Long Visa Want Apply

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth Dreamers Like Disenchantment

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert

Better Debate Settle Settling Without Question Debating Than

Great art picks up where nature ends. Marc Chagall

Art Great Nature Great Art Picks Up Ends Where

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. Michel de Montaigne

You Nine About Cat Lifetimes Never Know Knows Much Your

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Michel de Montaigne

Fears Shall He Who Suffer Suffers

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte

Time Action Thinking Deliberate Take Go Arrived Stop

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. Napoleon Bonaparte

Oppression Those Like Oppress Dislike Who Many Among

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. Napoleon Bonaparte

Better Sometimes Dangers Destiny Abandon Torment Self Often Avoided

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne

Day Will Single Revolution Carrot Observed Coming Off Set

A liar is always lavish of oaths. Pierre Corneille

Liar Oaths Lavish Always