French Quotes

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

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.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?