50 French Quotes for Inspiring Your Life!!

French is one of the most beautiful languages! A second language to many people and the strongest competitor with Spanish in regards to which language is more sexy. 

Here are 50 French Quotes which are sure to make life, love and lessons fun…
Because hey, everything sounds Beautiful in French!

(None of them belong to Topcount originally and have been collected from various places, books and sites)

1. À vaillant coeur rien d’impossible. -Jacques Cœur
   
   “For a valiant heart nothing is impossible.”
2.  Chacun voit midi à sa porte. -French proverb
   
   “Everyone sees noon at his own door.”  
3.  Dans une grande ame tout est grand. -Blaise Pascal
   
   “In a great mind everything is great.”
   
4. Prouver que j’ai raison serait accorder que je puis avoir tort. -Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
   
    “Proving that I am right would be admitting that I could be wrong.”
5. Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop. -French proverb
   
   “Chase away the natural and it returns at a gallop,” is very similar to the English saying about leopard and their spots.”
6. Je pense, donc, je suis. -Rene Descartes
   
   “I think, therefore, I am.”
    
7. On n’est point toujours une bête pour l’avoir été quelquefois. -Denis Diderot
   
   “Being a fool sometimes does not make one a fool all the time.”
   
8.  Il n’y a pas de verités moyennes. -Georges Bernanos
   
   “There are no half-truths.”
9. On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne. -French proverb
   
   “One does not change a winning team.” In other words, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
10.  Être adulte, c’est être seul. -Jean Rostand
    
    “To be an adult is to be alone.”
    
11. Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on. Le malheur est qui’il tue ses éléves. -Hector Berlioz
    
    “We say that time is a great teacher. It’s too bad that it kills all its students.”
12. Vaut mieux prévenir que guérir. -French proverb
    
    “It is better to prevent than to heal.”
13.  Un homme seul est toujours en mauvaise compagnie. -Paul Valéry
    
    “A lone man is always in poor company.”
14. L’enfer, c’est les autres. -Jean-Paul Sartre
    
    “Hell is other people.”
    
15. . A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire. -Pierre Corneille
    
    “To win without risk is a triumph without glory.”
16. La vérité vaut bien qu’on passe quelques années sans la trouver. -Jules Renard
    
    “Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.”
17. La raison c’est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c’est de la folie. -Eugène Ionesco
    
    “Reason is the madness of the strongest. The reason of those less strong is madness.”
18.  Autres temps, autres mæurs. -French proverb
    
    “Other times, other customs.”
19.  Il vaut mieux faire que dire. -Alfred de Musset
    
    “Doing is better than saying.”
20. Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu’il craint. -La Fontaine
    
    “He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.”
21. Il faut bonne mémoire après au’on a meni. -Pierre Corneille
    
    “A liar should have a good memory.”
     
22. La parfait valeur est de faire sand témoin ce qu’on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde. -La Rochefoucauld
    
    “True valor is to do in secrecy what you could just have easily done before others.”
    
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23. La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel. -Victor Hugo
    
    “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
24. Il n’y a qu’un bonheur dans la vie, c’est d’aimer et d’être aimé. -George Sand
    
    “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
25. Va, je ne te hais point.  -Pierre Corneille
    
    “Go, I don’t hate you.”
26.  L’amour est comme le vent, nous ne savons pas d’où il vient. -Honoré de Balzac
    
    “Love is like the wind, we never know where it will come from.”
27. Plus l’offenseur m’est cher, plus je ressens l’injure. -Jean Racine
    
    “The more dearly I hold the offender, the more strongly I feel the insult.”
28. Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    
    “Love doesn’t mean gazing at each other, but looking, together, in the same direction.” 
29. On n’aime que ce qu’on ne possède pas tout entier. -Marcel Proust
    
    “We love only what we do not wholly possess.”
30.  Choisissez votre femme par l’oreille bien plus que par les yeux. -French proverb
    
    “Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”
31.  L’amour c’est être stupide ensemble. -Paul Valéry
    
    “Love is being stupid together.”
32. Entre deux cœurs qui s’aiment, nul besoin de paroles. -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
    
    “Two hearts in love need no words.”
33. Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser. -Alfred de Musset
    
    “The only true language in the world is a kiss.”
34.  Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas. -Blaise Pascal
    
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
35.  Vivre sans aimer n’est pas proprement vivre. -Molière
    
    “To live without loving is to not really live.”
36. Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé. -Alphonse de Lamartine
    
    “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
37.   La vie est un sommeil, l’amour en est le rêve. -Alfred de Musset
    
    “Life is a long sleep and love is its dream.”
    
38.  Oh! Si tu pouvais lire dans mon coeur, tu verrais la place où je t’ai mise! -Gustave Flaubert
    
    “If you could read my heart, you would see the place I have given you there.”
39. C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour. -Albert Camus
    
    “That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.”
    
40. L’amour est une passion qui ne se soumet à rien, et à qui au contraire, toutes choses se soumettent. -Madeleine de Scudéry
    
    “Love is a passion which surrenders to nothing, but to the contrary, everything surrenders to love.”
41. Le prix d’Amour, c’est seulement Amour… Il faut aimer si l’on veut etre aimé… –Honoré d’Urfé
    
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42.  Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs. -Victor Hugo
    
    “Books are cold and certain friends.”
43. Un peuple malheureux fait les grands artistes. -Alfred de Musset
    
    “An unhappy nation makes great artists.”
44.  Ècrire, c’est une façon de parler sans être interrompu. -Jules Renard
    
    “Writing is a way to talk without being interrupted.”
45.  Imaginer c’est choisir. -Jean Giono
    
    “To imagine is to choose.”
46. La critique est aisée, mais l’art est difficile. -Philippe Destouches
    
     “Criticism is easy, art is difficult.”
47.  L’æuvre d’art, c’est une idée qu’on exagére. -André Gide
    
    “A work of art is an idea that someone exaggerates.”
48. On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    
    “We see well only with the heart.”
49. Les chefs-d’oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses. -George Sand
    
    “Masterpieces are never anything else but happy attempts.”
50. Le monde est un livre dont chaque pas nous ouvre une page. -Alphonse de Lamartine
    
    “The world is a book – with each step we open a page.”

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 Always remember and never forget,
whatever the situations maybe—
“La vie est Belle!”
Life is beautiful)