Author of quotes: François-rené de Chateaubriand

Contempt should be very sparingly lavish, as the number of those in need is great.

When people do not believe in anything, they are ready to believe anything.

Moral virtues consist not so much the availability of advantages, but in the absence of faults.

The history of Nations is the scale of the human disaster, the division which marked the revolution.

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

If I had the temerity to believe in happiness, I would be looking for him in the habit.

Youth is happy because she knows nothing; age miserable, because everyone knows.

Glory to the old man what diamonds are to women - they decorate it, but can't make it perfect.

The source of evil is vanity, and the source of all goodness - the mercy...

Without women man would remain rough, harsh, lonely and would never know all those charms that only the smiles of love. A woman wrapped around it with flowers, life-like vines adorn their fragrant garlands of oak.

High goals are not achieved low means.