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Quotes by French Authors
"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent."
"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world."
"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being."
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
"We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side."
"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."
"I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car."
"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad."
"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
"That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race."
"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."
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