40 Quotes by Jules Michelet

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.