The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
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… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics,… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day;… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
