Quotes by Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy

French writer and poet

Lived from: 1873 - 1914

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: France

Born: 7 january 1873 Died: 5 september 1914

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• We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

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• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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• Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

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• The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

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• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• indefatigable
• infidelity
• unfaithful
• successive
• renascent
• organized

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