Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

François-René de Chateaubriand

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

Art

Meaningful

Play

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives–all bear secret relations to our destinies.

Character

Fall

Flower

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Art

World

Writing

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Cities

Dream

Left

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Originality

Originals

Writing

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Giving

Knowledge

Light

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

Men

Mother

Son

Every institution goes through three stages – utility, privilege, and abuse.

Abuse

Privilege

Three

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

May

Men

World

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Civilization

Desert

Forests

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Abuse

Art

Atheism

Beautiful

Bread

Cat

Cease

Character

Children

Cities

Civilization

Clouds

Compare

Decrease

Desert

Distance

Doe

Dog

Downfall

Dream

Editing

Fall

Feels

Flower

Forests

Friendship

Giving

Heart

Height

Hungry

Ideas

Imitating Others

Impatience

Increase

Judging

Justice

Killing

Killing Others

Knowledge

Lasts

Left

Life

Light

Lightning

Long

Looks

Love

Made

Matter

May

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Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

François-René de Chateaubriand

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Every institution goes through three stages – utility, privilege, and abuse.

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

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