Jules Michelet Quotes

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

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

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

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

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

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

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

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

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

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.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?