Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Edgar Quinet

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a…

- Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

- Edgar Quinet

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

- Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

- Edgar Quinet

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

- Edgar Quinet

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

- Edgar Quinet

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes…

- Edgar Quinet

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

- Edgar Quinet