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