French literature Quote by Charles Baudelaire

“Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call…

— Oscar Wilde

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Pain we surrender to God is not wasted but like labor pains it bears fruit and brings new life.”

— Barbara Hosbach

“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the…

— Euripides

“O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The desires of the flesh leads to sin. But the delight of the spirit leads to life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God give none”

— John Milton