37 Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

chance could not have formed the world, because there could have been but one single favorable chance against innumerable impossibilitiesșansa nu ar fi putut forma lumea, deoarece nu ar fi putut exista decât o singură șansă favorabilă împotriva nenumăratelor imposibilități

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature .

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.