Quotes by French/France authors (page 5)

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant"

Voltaire, Writer

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason"

Voltaire, Writer

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"

Voltaire, Writer

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment"

Voltaire, Writer

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Medicines are only fit for old people"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Imagination rules the world"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Ability is nothing without opportunity"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The army is the true nobility of our country"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey"

Victor Hugo, Author

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses"

Victor Hugo, Author

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

Victor Hugo, Author

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal"

Victor Hugo, Author

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Habit is the nursery of errors"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Conscience is God present in man"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love"

Victor Hugo, Author

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Quotes by French authors