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Quotes by French Authors
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart."
"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
"Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet."
"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
"My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don't belong here."
"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
"First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people."
"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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