Quotes by french authors

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine

Time Strength Patience Passion More Than

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. Andre Gide

Inspirational Yourself Faithful Within Exists Which

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Me Winter Summer Finally Invincible Learned Depth

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse

Nature Those See Always Want Them Who Flowers

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

Music Impossible Silent Said Cannot Which Expresses

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

Great Intelligence Small Minds Extraordinary Minds Great Minds Small Concerned Ordinary

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Heart Rightly Eye See Only Invisible Essential

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Charles Baudelaire

Beautiful Brainy Everything Noble Calculation Product Reason

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire

Art Nature Patient Medicine Consists Cures Disease While Amusing

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de La Fontaine

Man Soul Made Vanish Fires His Impossibilities Anything

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion Rich Poor Keeps

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. Nadia Boulanger

Love You Passion Everything Must Conditions Essential Choice

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire

Appreciation Wonderful Others Excellent Well Makes Wonderful Thing Us Thing Belong

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte

Death Daily Nothing Live Die Defeated

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

Thoughts Communication Painting Eloquence

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope Leadership Leader Dealer

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. Albert Camus

Man World Ethics Beast Wild Wild Beast Without