18 Quotes by George Sand

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
No human creature can give orders to love.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

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