70 quotes found
Essayist · French
French essayist
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“Everything has its poetry. 94”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture t...”
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
“Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.”
“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”
“What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”
