Quotes by french authors

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Roger de Rabutin
Love Great Wind Fire Small Absence To Love
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt
Love Food Me You Words Wine Breath Everything Your
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil
Soul Important Recognized Perhaps Most Least Human The Most Important Rooted Human Soul Need
All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir
War Oppression State Creates
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir
Love Truth Myself Me Through Safe Comfort Rewarded Certainties Away
Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful. Sonia Rykiel
Love Beautiful You Learning Love Yourself Yourself Hide Most Beautiful Important Beauty Beginning Show Off Think About Most Knowing Most Important Thing Important Thing Off The Most Important To Love Show Less Thing
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
Future History Past Echo Reflex
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. Victor Hugo
God World Destruction Every Suicide Destroy Bad He Institution Itself Ends Thing Desires
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Victor Hugo
Stupidity Vanity Talks Acts
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. Voltaire
Property Appreciation Own Others Our Excellence Make
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. Voltaire
Nature Law First Other Our Weakness Follies Mutually Pardon First Law Errors Us Full Each Let Us
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire
Age Energy Consider Virtue Simply Most Loss After Persons
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. Albert Camus
Day Every Day Wait Judgment Every Takes Place Last
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
Truth First Absurd Concept Essential
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
Life Despairing Consists Hoping Implacable Sin Perhaps Another Against Grandeur Much
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville
Innovation Men Trouble First Revolution Every Danger Fearing Point Absolutely Advance Step Toward New Reach Look First Step May Move Refuse Where Cannot Social Theory Help
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France
Education You Memory Able Between Know How How Much Committed Being Much Even Differentiate
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide
Experience Before Beginning Back Everything Has-Been Nobody Over Since Said Been Going Listens Again Keep Keep Going
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois
Time Age Old Busy Bad Bad Habit More Habit No Time Than Person Form Which Growing Growing Old Busy Person
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. Blaise Pascal
Good Tired Our Futile Out True Redeemer Arms May After Search Stretch
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal
Fault Illusion Evil Add Further Faults Recognize Voluntary Since Greater Greater Evil Unwilling Still Truly Them Full
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal
You Yourself People Speak Wish Think Well
Only idiots refuse to change their minds. Brigitte Bardot
Change Minds Only Idiots Refuse
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. Brigitte Bardot
Wisdom Youth Experience Men Animals Beauty Gave Give Am Going
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
People Judge Debate Leader Big Setting Aim Aim High High Must See Thus Himself Narrow Confines Form Ordinary Apart Ordinary People Who Widely
Old age is a shipwreck. Charles de Gaulle
Age Old Old Age Shipwreck
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