“The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.””
Quotes by Émile Souvestre
“Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repenting.””
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1
“If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.””
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1
“He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils:””
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 2
“One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or a ray of sunshine.””
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 2
“Before we complain of being ill we should prove that we deserve to be well.””
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 3
Émile SouvestreÉmile Souvestre was a Breton novelist. Initially unsuccessful as a writer of drama, he fared better as a novelist (he wrote a sci-fi novel, *Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera*) and as a researcher and writer of...