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Quotes by French Authors
"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."
"We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody."
"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures."
"Philosophy cannot be taught, it is the application of the sciences to truth."
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."
"L'Attitude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."
"I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role."
"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."
"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."
"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
"The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier."
"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."
"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."
"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."
"If you start to take Vienna take Vienna."
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
"Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!"
"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."
"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
"I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated."
"Only he who knows how to speak can be silent."
"One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen."
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