Top 32 Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand Quotes
#3. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.
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#4. One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.
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#9. Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.
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#10. I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character .
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#14. Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
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#15. Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
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#17. Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.
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#20. The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.
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#21. Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
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#28. We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.
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#30. Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
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#31. Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
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#32. As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
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