Quotes by french authors

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding Own Minds Beyond Anything Which Dismiss Mediocre
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great Management Enough Great Qualities Also Qualities Them Should
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastiat
Great Live Else State Everyone Everyone Else Seeks Entity Expense Fictitious Which
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand
Love Women Earth Slips Take Always Love Always Refuge Heaven Them
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
Life Poet Though Draws Poetry Delights Never He Written Noble True True Poet Line His Sentiments Who
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand
Life Faith Words Enthusiasm Argument Our Way Must Exact Small Magnificence Through Excitement Empty Cling Condition Intellectual Squander Which Treasure Coin
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand
Soul Eyes Beauty Spell Address Eye Only Always Itself Body Moment
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. George Sand
Day Few Changes Day-To-Day Altered Passed Years After
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Gustave Flaubert
Beautiful Man Woman Animal Excess Ideal Vulgar Created Whom
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert
Time Language Dance Long Stars Out Bears Beat Cracked Move Pity Tunes Which While Kettle
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Henri Matisse
Love You Love Is Lover Guard Drink Study Naivete Drunkard Learn Within Original Desire
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. Honore de Balzac
Love Heart Will Own Nothing Flower Way Insect Finding Finds Instinct Nor Which Turn Aside Dismay
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honore de Balzac
Man Woman Anatomy At Least One Marry Dating Studied He Until Least Should Dissected
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Man Free Beneath Birth Earth Carries Only Weight He Surface His Sink Shoulders Gravity
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Would Generalizations Lead Study Absurd Also Undertaken Prisons Were Human Psychology Certain
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Living Difficult Think Too Earning Only Nobly Thinks
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Election Free Think Members Only Parliament English
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Jean-Paul Sartre
Savage Me Selfish Men Unjust Find See More Mischievous Vulture Wolves Than Ape Base
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics You Science Others Wrong Demonstrate Right
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Jean-Paul Sartre
Myself Soul Deliver Sin Longer Sure Am Infect Refuse Anything Them Whole Satisfy Desires
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. Jean Anouilh
Will Long Snake Too Other Strike Way Weapon Propaganda About Like Hands Move Hold Your Soft
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Jean Baudrillard
Funny Revenge World Halloween Nothing About Rather Adult Demand Festival Reflects Infernal Children Sarcastic
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Jean Cocteau
Man Myth Few Alcohol Unable Lies Seeks Give He Withdraw Him Himself Comfort Does His Escape Any Inaccuracy Means Moments Disposal
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
Death Day Me Walk Birth Hurrying Toward Since Without Began Walking
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Jean Cocteau
Man Living Must Artist
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet
Me Creativity Insanity Imagination Super Normal Lack Psychotic Means Sanity
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