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1461 French Quotes

Sensible people find nothing useless

Sensible People Find Useless
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue

Love Victory Woman Virtue
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

Love Dominion Prudence
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Cheerful Mind Vigorous
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Dreams Realities Man Truth
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No flowery road leads to glory

Flowery Road Leads Glory
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Imitators Slavish Fools Opinion
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.

Blind Fortune Pursues Rashness
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The sign brings customers

Sign Brings Customers
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all

Anyone Experienced Ecstasy Betrayal
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What Need Hatred Ideas
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Beauty Ugliness Developing Purest
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse Dreams Youth Young
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Achieve Harmony Height Elegance
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Man Dream Order Darkness
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Power End Shadow Image
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Object Revolution Liberation Ideology
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Time Reasoning Past Fight
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Time Envying People Wish
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty Art Ugliness Subdued
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Minds Humanity Power Hearts
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Admirable Fortitude Tolerate Wealth
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth Great Minds Fight
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science Gods Worthy Men
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we

Stupidity Vanity Fail Direction
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think Why We Computers
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know

Obligation Endure Right Know
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Falsity Idea Beautiful Mind
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Take heed Critics Fair Resist
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Pessimism Point Sincerity
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Married Suited Partners Quarrel
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Watch Modesty Prescence Grounds
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Man Old Seeking Something
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Important Science Forget Things
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Moments Truth Opinion Cost
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Nobility Human being Strictly Convictions
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Love Idea Little
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Offend Thoughts Expressed Souls
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing Leads Scientist Truth
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Moments Wish Future Past
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Ideals Reveal Vices
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Politics Lie Flatter Today's
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day

Marriage Simplifies Life Complicates
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Science Free Minds Instincts
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To live is often to struggle toward goals one has a desire to reach.
Live Struggle Goals Desire
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Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Being right Important Freedom Wrong
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Big Little Truths Race
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