Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire
Imagination governs the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
- Claude Debussy
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
- Gustave Flaubert
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
- French revolution motto
Men argue. Nature acts.
- Voltaire
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
- Victor Hugo
To love reading is to exchange hours of boredom for delightful hours.
- Montesquieu
I think, therefore I am.
- René Descartes
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
- Blaise Pascal
The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion.
- Blaise Pascal
History is an echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Victor Hugo
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- André Gide