255 Quotes by George Sand

If you do not cease loving me, you will see me, you will feel me, you will hear me everywhere. My form will be before your eyes because it will remain engraved on your mind; my voice will echo in your ear because it will remain in your heart’s memory: my spirit will again reveal itself to your spirit because your soul understands me and knows me completely.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Вы слишком требовательны, это не приносит счастья в жизни. Вы что ж, хотите, чтобы человек так вот сразу понял свой долг и тут же исполнил его?

Happiness, so they say, makes one selfish... Alas! this happiness that is in store for some to the detriment of others must make one so, indeed. O my God! Shared happiness, that which one would find by working for the happiness of one's fellow men, would make man as great as his destiny on earth, as good as yourself!

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours?

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

¡Dejadme escapar de la mentirosa y criminal ilusión de la felicidad!Dadme trabajo, cansancio, dolor y entusiasmo.

Le sillon du laboureur ne vaut-il pas celui de l’oisif qui a pourtant un nom, un nom qui restera si, par une singularité ou une absurdité quelconque, il fait un peu de bruit dans le monde ?…