Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE