Quotes by french authors

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal

Faith Light Believe Enough Those Shadows Blind Want Who

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte

Best Mind Cure Quiet Body

Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal

Great Simple Style Minds Great Minds Only Afford

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. Victor Hugo

Perseverance Secret Triumphs

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing Add More Take Perfection Left Achieved Away

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Time Too Late Never Too Late Action Too Late Something Never Now

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal

Love Me You Love Me Matter Both Does Anyway Us

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire

Dangerous Matters Wrong Authorities Established Which Right

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom Equality Would Rather Equal Enamored Than Unequal American Slavery

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. Alexis de Tocqueville

Future Darkness Past Walks Spirit Longer Illuminates

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. Napoleon Bonaparte

You People Fear Disagree Cowardly Too Those Know Who

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. Napoleon Bonaparte

Music Tells Voice Knows Greater Than Human Race Us Human Race

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You Old Crime Increasingly Penalized Like Committed Being Growing Growing Old

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. Claude Monet

Nature Wish Living Corner Stay Like Always Quietly

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola

Work Art Gift Nothing Without Artist

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert

Kindness People More Than Loving Deserve

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Jules Verne

Time Together Space Enemies Will Wind Fall Other Meet Crowd Throw Open Put Come Tide Without Inevitably Question Ships Place Midst Planets Sea Last Two Fatality

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire

Music Dance Additional Everything Dancing Hidden Poetry Mysterious Merit Arms Reveal Human Being Legs Being Human Palpable

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

Happiness Life Love Conviction Ourselves Rather Spite Greatest Greatest Happiness Loved

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire

Problem Thinking No Problem Withstand Sustained Assault