255 Quotes by George Sand

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

You don’t have to write to me if you don’t feel like it. There’s no real friendship without absolute freedom.

One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

When they are among us cats are angels.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

Travelling is like a novel: it’s what happens that counts.

I needn’t tell you that success and failure prove nothing – the whole thing is a lottery. It’s pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn’t to be very upsetting to fail.