Jules Michelet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
-- Jules Michelet

#Miracle #Contradiction #Divine
You are one of the forces of nature.
-- Jules Michelet

#Environment #Force #Forces Of Nature
The way to gain a friend is to be one
-- Jules Michelet

#Friends #Way #Gains
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
-- Jules Michelet

#Children #Teaching #Tasks
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
-- Jules Michelet

#Heart #Glory #Goodness
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
-- Jules Michelet

#Men #Indifference #Tyranny
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
-- Jules Michelet

#Given #Esteem
The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
-- Jules Michelet

#Real #Climbing #Effort
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband
-- Jules Michelet

#Husband #Fear #Wife
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
-- Jules Michelet

#Men #Yield #Too Much
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
-- Jules Michelet

#Women #Obedience #Wells
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
-- Jules Michelet

#Marriage #Wife #Wish
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
-- Jules Michelet

#Race #India #World
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
-- Jules Michelet

#Coffee #Reality #Clouds
Every epoch dreams its successor.
-- Jules Michelet

#Dream
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
-- Jules Michelet

#Poverty #Poor
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
-- Jules Michelet

#Family #Mother #Children
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
-- Jules Michelet

#Life #Animal #Men
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
-- Jules Michelet

#Strong #Powerful #Passion
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
-- Jules Michelet

#Reality
Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
-- Jules Michelet

#Goal #Achieve
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
-- Jules Michelet

#Silence #Produce #Eloquence
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
-- Jules Michelet

#Sunday #Men #Joy
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
-- Jules Michelet

#Firsts #Instruments #Duty
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
-- Jules Michelet

#Justice #Firsts #Social Justice

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