Quotes by french authors

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. Jean de la Bruyere
Man People Master Masters His Ambitious May Useful Who Many Slave Position
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de la Bruyere
Man World Thought Must Seem He Wishes
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere
Wise Fear Society Bored Wise Person Person Often Being
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. Jean de la Bruyere
Death Passion Hatred Long Sick Sign Reconciliation Obstinate Surest Malady Person Lived Desire
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Jean de la Bruyere
Men Crimes Weaknesses Vanity Than Blush Less
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de la Bruyere
Mind Second-Rate Mark Telling Always Stories
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness Life Grief Hates Absence Person Loved Loved One Compared
I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know. Jeanne Moreau
Life Time Life Is A Waste Time Myriad Like Know Territories Been Discover Going Where Want Waste
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. Jeanne Moreau
Life Death You Yourself Long Before Waves Easy Ripples Seems Dead Make Condemning Impotence
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that? Jeanne Moreau
Man Woman Dreamt Never Being Tune Fantasies Actress
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. Jeanne Moreau
You Yourself World Dangerous Path Giving Important Trapped Idea Most Get Image
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. Jeanne Moreau
Love You Feeling Pain Touch Give Provoking Love You Capable Receive
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly. Joan of Arc
You Made King Enter City Paris Marvel Truce True Over Days Duke End Quickly Burgundy Turn Fifteen Should
Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses. Joel Robuchon
Food Me Cooking Strong Spices Market Types Saw New Like Leaves Southeast Southeast Asia Wet Quite Curry Different Senses Which Chinatown Asia Asian Used Uses Many Appeals Different Types
Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level. Joel Robuchon
You Slow Down Top Bit Longer Like Sport Return Always Cuisine Creating Challenging Level Playing Competitive
There is no such thing as the perfect meal; one can always do better. Joel Robuchon
Better Meal Perfect Always Thing
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin
God Great Will Rise Misery No-One He Him Up Against Mighty Avoid
Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert
Critics Rather Than Models Children Need
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
You Will Unless Find Some Poetry Nowhere Bring
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. Joseph Joubert
Great Me Bible Book Men Sense Live Books Remained Divine How Still Which Teach
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. Joseph Roux
Good People Teeth Those Laugh Fine Cry Hearts Show Who
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Joseph Roux
Truth Sunday Clothes Poetry
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. Joseph de Maistre
Guidance Wonderful Free Action Throne Scheme Divine Bound Most Supreme Supreme Being Without Being Which Us Aspect Flexible Beings Chain Things Universal
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. Joseph de Maistre
Constitution Made All Nations None Nations
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself. Joseph de Maistre
Truth Man Speak Will Local Onto He Over Well Always Covered Errors Itself May Show Universal Loaded
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. Josephine Baker
Freedom Democracy Equality Cruelty France Those Fraternity True True Freedom Get Wanted Land Far Far Away Then Who Believed Away
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