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