French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

“This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions…

— Hilary Mantel

An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the…

— Andre Malraux

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

— Lord Acton

“As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks…

— Hilary Mantel

“Let him then, who would be indeed a Christian, watch over his ways and over his heart with unceasing circumspection. Let him endeavour to…

— William Wilberforce

“A wise man will cultivate a servant’s spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom…

— Andy Andrews

“I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes-- marvelous these royal robes!…

— Quinesia Johnson

“Strive now to unite in yourself all the virtues of these different examples. Have the purity of virgins, the austerity of anchorites, the zeal…

— Pierre Abélard

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

“When you see a Minister thinking more of himself than of you, and in all his actions seeking his own ends, that man can…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick