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George Sand

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George Sand is proof that you do not need celebrity to say something worth remembering. George Sand's observations on Happiness are as sharp as their thoughts on Love, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 13 of George Sand's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Happiness, Love, Work, Women, and Strength. Consider this gem from George Sand: "Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."

“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”

— George Sand

Happiness

All Quotes by George Sand

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

Happiness

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”

— George Sand

Age

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

— George Sand

Poetry

“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”

— George Sand

Women

“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”

— George Sand

Experience

“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”

— George Sand

Strength

“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”

— George Sand

Beauty

“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”

— George Sand

Faith

“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”

— George Sand

Happiness

“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

Happiness