Author Nationality

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Nationality : French

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Nationality : French

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Nationality : French

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Nationality : French

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Nationality : French

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Nationality : French

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Nationality : French

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Nationality : French

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Nationality : French

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Nationality : French