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1461 French Quotes

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Fools Certain Assured
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Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Women Pain Pleasure
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Happiness Working Goals
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Wise man Sees Much
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee

Rejoice Present
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Strong Imagination Opportunity
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The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

Conduct Lives Mirror Doctrine
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Honesty Right Wrong Policy
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Government is the right disposition of things.

Government Disposition Things
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Life Futility Vain words
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Where there is power, there is resistance.

Power Resistance
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Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

Knowledge Cutting
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The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Enlightenment Liberties Disciplines
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Desire Contrary Nature
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Death Tragic Truth Secret
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Justice Society Work Institutions
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people

Schools Define Control People
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Soul Effect Prison Body
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.

Power Tolerable Success Mechanisms
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Speak Reason Truth Knowledge
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

Madness Punishment Virtue Problem
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There is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with

Power Constituting Counter
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

Language Psychiatry Reason Madness
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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Idea Self Work Art
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Love Memory Time Place
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The individual is the product of power.

Individual Product Power
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Freedom Conscience Authority
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Power Punish Curing Educating
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Good sense Good taste Effect
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Wise Modest man Vain
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Miracles Difficulties Grow
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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Tip-toes Walk Stand
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Friendship Weaker Love
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Pious Atheist King
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Children Future Enjoy
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Lawsuits Pervert Health Property
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Eminence Great person Small person
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You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

Nature Wrong Never You
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Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Truth Humility Pride Lying
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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
Alone Build Go Peace
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What we wear is the shell of who we are.

We wear The shell
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
You Do Foolish Things
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

Better Feel Ourselves Knock
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Beauty Nothing Promise Happiness
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Freedom What Done You
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You should not separate your life from what you do.

You Seperate Life What
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

Want Live Life Dangerously
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Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

Hope God Faith Enemies
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
Battles Won Lost Mind
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Paper Patient Reader
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