George Sand Quotes

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts -- once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness -- simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.

Where love is absent, there can be no woman.

No religion can be built on force.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?