Jules Michelet Quotes & Sayings

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

You are one of the forces of nature. — Jules Michelet

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 ... ? — Jules Michelet

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything. — Jules Michelet

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

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time. — Jules Michelet

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

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

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything. — Jules Michelet

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions — 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. — Jules Michelet

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

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

Every epoch dreams its successor. — Jules Michelet

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

The way to gain a friend is to be one — Jules Michelet

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

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth. — Jules Michelet

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 — Jules Michelet

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

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

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. — Jules Michelet

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

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

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system. — Jules Michelet

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