Quotes by french authors

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. Michel de Montaigne
Death Me Dying Alarm
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. Michel de Montaigne
Good Intelligence Others Our Polish Brain Against Rub
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne
Know Well Am Fleeing Search
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present. Mireille Guiliano
Life Success Dreams Day Yourself Remember Living Pleasures Definition Put Powerful Balanced Make Another Another Day Always Priority Off Personal Any Happening Your Your Dreams Element Now Living Life Present Treating
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Moliere
Good Man Charity World Wealth Every He True Fellows Does His Act Hereafter
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. Moliere
Fool More Learned Than Ignorant
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. Moliere
Me Wrong Know Right
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. Montesquieu
War Maintain Empire Itself Founded
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. Napoleon Bonaparte
Undoubtedly Foresight May
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. Napoleon Bonaparte
Dignity People Lose Celebrated Closer View
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. Napoleon Bonaparte
Punish More Policing Often Order Act Less
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. Ninon de L'Enclos
God Woman Wrinkles Give Had He Put Feet Least Them Might Her
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly. Nostradamus
Will Master Rule Months He Bleed Trace Without His End Quickly Then Lands England Twenty Royalty
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. Paul Verlaine
Rain Heart Tears Fall Town Like
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
Wisdom Truth Key Doubting Constant Frequent Arrive Led Question Questioning
I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life. Philippe Petit
Life You Mistake People Personality Think Unlimited Would Perceive Something Magnificent How Making Limiting Front Them Moment Describe
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. Pierre Corneille
He Himself Insulted Who Deserves
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed. Pierre Omidyar
You Do The Right Thing People Opportunity Right Thing Rarely Give Disappointed The Right Thing Right Thing
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Day Great Waiting Battle Passion Will Long Power Own Our Spend Great Day Our Lives Hidden All Things Spirit Emerge Directed Given Towards Nor Effort Being Which Then Us Deed Many Lives Things Necessary External
The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Work Great Family Man Will Country Aims Wills More Pursue He Blaze Ideal Nobly Longer New Content Becomes Cherish Causes Discover His Sublime Truths Uphold Paths Want Create Organisations Aspect Avid Acts Wider Defend
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Will Long Believe Must Comprehend Only He Head Very Short Fully Creed
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Thoughts Man Citizen Earth Finally Would Finds Above Rises Having Countries Categories Like Himself Child Little Who Express
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. Pierre de Coubertin
Humanity Springtime Celebration Games Olympic Olympic Games
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes
First Single Doubt Never Knew True Until Accept Without Precept Thing
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty. Sacha Guitry
You Pretend Witty Serious
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Freedom You Solitude Wine Poison Others Bitter Beat Head Days Heady Makes Still Wall Against Your Tonic
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