Portal:French and Francophone literature/Quotes

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• "Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

– Honoré de Balzac

• "The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."

– Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

• "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man…The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."

– Victor Hugo

• "Almost everything is imitation… The most original writers borrowed from one another."

– Voltaire