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Où tout est donné dans l'instant;
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C.G. JUNG La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.
PHILIP ROTH Puisque l'amour est cause de la joie, où l'amour est plus grand, la joie est plus manifeste.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
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VIRGINIE DESPENTES L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
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MONTESQUIEU The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE La règle d'or de la conduite est la tolérance mutuelle, car nous ne penserons jamais tous de la m�...
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AMéLIE NOTHOMB La vie est la seule carrière qui m'intéresse.
ERIK ORSENNA The wound is for you, but the pain is for me. [Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour...
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS La vie est grande, bonne, passionnante
ETTY HILLESUM « L'acte est la parole du corps »
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THOMAS MANN The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
WILFRED OWEN La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti.
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FRITHJOF SCHUON Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Gauvin reprit :
-Et la femme? qu'en faites-vous?
Cimourdain répondit:
-Ce qu'elle es...
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JACOB MAHURIEN La vie est une farce, apprends à rire.
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KRISTEVEN MOOTIEN Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS Une perception élargie, telle est la finalité de l'art.
GILLES DELEUZE Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est e...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame ...
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EMMANUEL TODD Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
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CATHERINE MILLOT For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET La vie, ce n'est pas une bite, elle est toujours dure.
CHAHDORTT DJAVANN L'élégance est de se comporter dans la solitude comme en société.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)
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VICTOR HUGO Je sais que c'est difficile. La liberté l'est toujours. C'est l'esclavage qui est facile !
EMMETT GROGAN To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Sera heureux celui ou celle pour qui tout est très important et, en même temps, sans aucune import...
PHILIPPE SOLLERS soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetu...
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THOMAS MANN Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque c...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Au moyen âge… L’introduction du trivium est attestée: SÂDI, un noir lettré de Tombouctou, au...
CHEIKH ANTA DIOP Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra...
ALBERT CAMUS Ariette III

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quell...
PAUL VERLAINE Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
WILLIAM CAMDEN La vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
MOTHER TERESA La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à c...
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CYRILLE MENDES Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse i...
GUSTAV SPET La façon dont tu traites les autres est un reflet direct de la façon dont tu te sens envers toi-m�...
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JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are th...
JOHN ADAMS No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
JOHN ADAMS In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
JOHN ADAMS But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the publi...
JOHN ADAMS The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion
JOHN ADAMS That's what they admire most about the horse, his durability.
JOHN ADAMS And before I knew it one came up and then immediately punches started coming from all directions and...
JOHN ADAMS But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, ...
JOHN ADAMS My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contriv...
JOHN ADAMS Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and...
JOHN ADAMS Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
JOHN ADAMS Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right...
JOHN ADAMS It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their co...
JOHN ADAMS The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dread...
JOHN ADAMS Politics are the divine science, after all
JOHN ADAMS It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power
JOHN ADAMS Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and ...
JOHN ADAMS Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and tha...
JOHN ADAMS Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
JOHN ADAMS Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importan...
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation
JOHN ADAMS The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or ...
JOHN ADAMS Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so ext...
JOHN ADAMS There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to liv...
JOHN ADAMS It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the...
JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
JOHN ADAMS The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, th...
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