France

Capital:             Paris
Government:    Republic
Currency:         euro or € (EUR)
Area:                547,030 km2
Population:       61,538,322 (April 2007) in non-overseas France
Language:         French, some regional languages and dialects

France Quotes

Make friends with those who would be quick to criticize you.
-Boileu

Nothing weighs more than a secret.
-La Fonataine.

Pride is the consolation of the weak.
–Vauvenargues.

We were given speech to hide our thoughts.
-Talleyrand.

Nothing is real but dreams and love.
-Anna de Noailles.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
- Madeleine de Scudery

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
-Jules Renard

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
-Voltaire

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- Voltaire

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
-Voltaire

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
- Louis Aragon

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
-Raymond Aron

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
- Charles Baudelaire

Buying is a profound pleasure.
-Simone de Beauvoir

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
- Pierre Bourdieu

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
-Teilhard de Chardin

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
-Pierre Charron