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1461 French Quotes

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Hero One Order Oneself
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The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Danger Doubt Lie Soul
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

Culture Instrument Professors Manufacture
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The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.

Social order Necessary Evil Whatever
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Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Time's Violence Soul Eternity
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Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt

Men Imagine Owe Forgive
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Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Liberty Word Ability Choose
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The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

World Barrier Time Way through
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it

Love Life Order Serve
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Evil Power Necessity Duty
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Destruction Past Greatest Crimes
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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Important Part Teaching Know
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Religions Fear Cleverness Few
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Our true passions are selfish.

Our True Passion Selfish
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Styles Beauty Visions Happiness
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
One Acquire Solitude Character
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Small degree Hope Cause Love
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Faith Fool Selfishness Life
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The only way of touching a heart is to wound it

Way Touching Heart Wound
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Pleasures Love Proportion Fears
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will

Love Comes Independently Will
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What is really beautiful must always be true.

What Beautiful True
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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

Old age Absence Illusion Passion
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind

Love Beauty Fear Mind
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it

Pleasure Spoiled Describing
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What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.

Use Love Religion
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Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

Love Beautiful Brave Edge
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women Eagerly Lookout Emotion
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship Illusions Love
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People Happy Love Intensity
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Life Short Time Waste
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Misfortunes Life Wrong notions Things
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Shepherd Persuade Sheep Interests
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War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

War Disaster Results Winners
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A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Man Act Action Breathe
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Great Pleasures Life Silent
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

Know War Peace Interlude
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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Order Act Man Thinking
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Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

Liberty Rights Discipline Order
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It is far easier to make war than peace.

Far Easier War Peace
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military Justice Music
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Thought Devour Fever Consumption
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Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony

Senses Miracle Music Nature
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They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.

Moved Watch Moments Beautiful
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But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

God Permit Love Splendor
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I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

Kissed Way Manner Guide
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Military men are the scourges of the world

Millitary Men Scourges World
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Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Language Masked Reveal Soul
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Every authentically loved being is a kind of god

Every Loved Being God
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It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

Difficult Learned Secret Ignorance
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