Jules Michelet Quotes

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• What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
• He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
• Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
• You are one of the forces of nature.
• 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.
• Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
• Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
• He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
• Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
• What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
• Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
• The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
• Every epoch dreams its successor.
• 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…
• At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
• The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
• 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…
• The way to gain a friend is to be one
• Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
• Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

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