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Quotes by French Authors
"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them."
"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."
"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other."
"Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."
"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within."
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
"When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious."
"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
"I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries."
"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."
"People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing."
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed."
"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."
"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace."
"What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession."
"Communism is in conflict with human nature."
"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."
"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it."
"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."
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