Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clo…

- Jules Michelet

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

- Jules Michelet

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

- Jules Michelet

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

- Jules Michelet

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

- Jules Michelet

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

- Jules Michelet

You are one of the forces of nature.

- Jules Michelet

Every epoch dreams its successor.

- Jules Michelet

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

- Jules Michelet