Quotes from Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

Plus notre coeur est tumultueux et bruyant, plus le calme et le silence nous attirent.

Except for the memories of his daughter and his son it was already as though he had never existed.

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Tous les germes de la destruction sociale sont dans la religion de Mahomet.

Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

Ä°nsan?n bir tek ve hep ayn? yaÅŸam? yoktur.PeÅŸ peÅŸe eklenen birçok yaÅŸam? vard?r ve çektiÄŸi ac?lar?n nedeni de budur.

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.

Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.

L'arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu'ils ont perdu la veille, ils s'apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cÅ"ur de l'homme, faut-il s'en étonner ? Il n'y a qu'une minute de la vie à la mort.

On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit ; on ne pardonne jamais à celui qui nous surpasse par l'âme et le génie.