Quotes by french authors

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France

Beautiful Path Beauty Leads Where Ask Us Let Us

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Disguise Become Others Ourselves End Accustomed Disguised In The End

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine

You Men Long Live Outward Outward Appearance Beware Judging Appearance

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Argument Those Wrong Employed Insults Who

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire

Life Power Other Our Thorns Through Misfortunes Remedy Longer Know Greater Pass Quickly Than Sown Dwell Them Us Harm

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Voltaire

Madness Miserable Insisting Well Optimism

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal

Evil Men Conviction Religious Never Cheerfully

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo

Dictatorship Revolution Fact Becomes Right

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean-Paul Sartre

Fight People Rich Another Die Poor Rich People Poor People Wars

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus

Love Valentines Day Duty Only Know To Love

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel

Time Spend Hoping Beating Wall Door Transform

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire

Nature Humanity Law First Tolerance Other Frailty Pardon Folly First Law Error Formed Us Each Let Us Consequence

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal

Justice Tyrannical Powerless Force Without

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

Respect Fear Nothing Despicable More Than Based

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal

Men Think Righteous Kinds Only Sinners Who Two

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

Change Principles Opinions Leaves Intact Roots Your Keep

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire

Trouble Earth Earthquakes More Opinion Caused Than Little