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Émile de Girardin
15 quotes
“At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No faith has triumphed without its martyrs.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Illusions ruin all those whom they blind.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions, discoveries, enterprises, and ideas which have illustrated the ages, and marked eras in human progress.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be?”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is more poverty in the human heart than misery in life.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which is the best religion? The most tolerant.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source