The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.
Moliere
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead
Pierre Corneille
The heart has reasons which the reason knows not of.
Blaise Pascal
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
Norse Proverb
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Nicolas Boileau
Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées.
Louis XIV of France
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean De La Fontaine
Nothing is so contagious as example
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
Johann von Goethe
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?
Frederick Willaim Faber
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.