Quotes by french authors

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Living Only Both Maintain Occupied Does Surpassing Perpetuating Itself Dying Then
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Stendhal
Sheep Own Tries Always Shepherd His Same Interests Persuade
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. Thomas Piketty
Education Knowledge Diffusion Main Pushing Toward Force Inequality Always Reduction Been
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo
Mask Beauty Virtue Veil Vice
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor Hugo
Funny More Than Revolutions Done Fashions Harm
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire
Nothing Imitation Borrowed Writers Most Another Judicious Original Originality
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Government Best Tyranny Benevolent Tempered Occasional Assassination
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire
Man Happy Neither Excess Abstinence Abuse Nor Use Ever
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
You World Stupid Enough Must Also Succeed
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. Voltaire
God Best Big Side Battalions Those Shoot Who
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus
Great Thoughts Beginning Corner Restaurant Born Revolving Often Door Deeds Works Ridiculous Street Street Corner
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus
Time Beauty Despair Out Unbearable Minute Drives Over Glimpse Like Offering Eternity Us Should Whole Stretch
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. Albert Camus
Painting Like Your Paintings
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus
Truth Truth Is Dangerous Liberty Goals Long Live Our Elusive Must Mysterious Advance Road Toward Failings Always Certain Hard Painfully Conquered March Two Resolutely
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus
Me Anarchy Thousand Would Entire Winds Scattered Because Without Makes Making Deaths Frightful Die Being Order Against Creating Means Disorder Rebels
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus
Judge Beauty Nothing Community Others Rather Obliged He True Between Himself Without Understand Scorn Than Artist Artists Cannot Midway Tear Why Away
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus
Work Art Great Man Heart Simple Slow Three First Nothing Trek Those Detours Through Opened Rediscover His Whose Presence Images Two
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas
Love Together Pure Latter Pure Love Makes Exit Suspicion Dwell Where Door Cannot Former
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas
Dangerous Generalizations Even
The quality of life is more important than life itself. Alexis Carrel
Life Quality Important More Quality Of Life Itself Than
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville
Time Old Society See Layer Through Colours Aristocratic Democratic Surface Covered American From Time To Time Breaking American Society Paint
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Alexis de Tocqueville
Politics Shared Almost Always Friendships Basis
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine
Wise Experience Men Only Prophecy Wise Men
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. Andre Gide
Work Art Overcome Finally Does Prejudice
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Andre Malraux
Failure Courage Better Ability Bet Risk Take Between Calculated Calculated Risk Ideas Person Often Difference Successful Act Successful Person
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. Andre Malraux
Love Truth Time History Remember Fall Think Despair Way Tyrants Seem Through Invincible Always Been End Won In The End Then
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