5 Quotes & Sayings By Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (March 9, 1798 - March 7, 1874) was a French historian and essayist. He is best known for his History of the French Revolution, published in ten volumes between 1847 and 1871.

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It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to them. This primal curse has always weighed heavily upon us; but how much more heavily under a religious law which compels us to endure this outrageous condition; which will not permit our honor, when it is imperiled, to save itself by casting aside the body, and seeking refuge in the world of the spirit! . Jules Michelet
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. Jules Michelet
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Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything. Jules Michelet
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Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. Jules Michelet