La puissance ne consiste pas à frapper fort ou souvent, mais à frapper juste.
Honoré de Balzac
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them
Victor Hugo
No one looked at her, no one thought of her. She felt herself swallowed up in the scorn of these virtuous creatures, who had first sacrificed, then rejected her as a thing useless and unclean.
Guy de Maupassant
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Aman who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Jean Paul
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself.