Best Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar (Top 7)

  1. The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
  2. Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
  3. I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
  4. nothing is slower than the true birth of a man
  5. Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.
  6. Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
  7. We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.