23 Quotes by Hippolyte Taine

There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

There are four varieties in society – the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.