“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.” PeopleMenJoyMotherLosesClassAtheismSubjectsSonBenefitsSoldierCowardRulersUnfortunateSensibilityMarsProsperousPledgeFidelityInsipid Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.” MenWorldLoveLifeCarePastDesireFriendshipLosesPowerfulGriefShareCrimeThis WorldBlessingFameFlowImportanceRemainsFortuneLeavingDisappearLikesGuiltyMediocrityFleetingDeceivedObscurityUnnoticedHappy DayFrivolityAll That RemainsPowerful Love Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“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.” MenWorldMayMadeSeemsThis WorldReturnEvery ManCarrieIncessantly Author:François-René de Chateaubriand
“Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.” MenFirstsIdeasTreeArchitectureForestsDivinityTemplesForests And Trees Author:François-René de Chateaubriand