16 quotes found
"We have proven during the last weeks and days that together we are strong, despite these very difficult times (due to COVID-19 pandemic). From today (16 April 2020), we're planning a new future. Let's help each other, let's stay innovative, because together, we'll find solutions."
"I can English understand, mais je prefère répondre en français pour être plus precis (... but I prefer to respond in French in order to be more precise)"
"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
"The flavour of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water."
"For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!"
"What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion."
"We salute more willingly an acquaintance in a carriage than a friend on foot."
"We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark."
"Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden."
"A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement."
"Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread."
"Let us respect white hair — especially our own."
"Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him."
"We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it."
"To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbour in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbour."
"Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them."