Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.
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ABBé PIERRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE The wine is poured, you should drink it.
[Fr., Le vin est verse, il faut le boire.]
THOMAS CAMPBELL Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible p...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The killer feels invulnerable. In this, he is vulnerable. (Le tueur se croit invulnérable. - En cel...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Il est bien des choses qui ne paraissent impossibles que tant qu'on ne les a pas tentées.
ANDRE GIDE Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre
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CHARLES DE LEUSSE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - J’aidais justement Ghezumi et Kassergh à bâter l’hypocras : du vin au miel avec de la cannel...
CYRILLE MENDES Mais dans la vie, tout n'est pas parfait. Parfois, il faut se fabriquer sa propre histoire. Donner u...
SARAH DESSEN ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre s...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.
ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
SOPHOCLES It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all s...
VOLTAIRE le moi est avant tout une instance de maitrise. C est un système de défense au service du principe...
CATHERINE MILLOT D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants,
La prove en est connue,
Et que tous, nos premier parents
...
MARQUIS PHILIPPE EMANUEL DE COULANGES A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his
valet.
[Fr., Il faut etre bien hero...
THOMAS CARLYLE C'est bien en nous que se féconde le plus joyeux et doux jardin du monde.
ÉMILE VERHAEREN La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco...
C.G. JUNG « Il faut avoir une très haute idée, non pas de ce que l'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourrait fair...
EDGAR DEGAS Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay...
PAUL FéVAL PèRE - Mais au début, vous avez dû être heureuse?
- Juste le temps d'y voir clair. Vous croyez pe...
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du t...
AMéLIE NOTHOMB Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible
JACQUES MARITAIN Don Juan : [...] Les voilà, mes spectres, les spectres de ce que je ne suis pas. Ce sont eux qui me...
HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Il faut garder quelques sourires pour se moquer des jours sans joie.
CHARLES TRENET Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action.
HENRI BERGSON Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.
HECTOR BERLIOZ Le livre n'est qu'un miroir. Il nous renvoie à ce que nous sommes. C'est pour cela qu'un livre est ...
YASMINA KHADRA Impossible n'est pas français. Mais il pourrait être roumain.
TEODOR BURNAR Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale...
ALEXANDRE JARDIN La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.
MAHATMA GANDHI La valeur d'un homme n'est pas dans la manière dont il tombe, mais dont il se relève !
JEPH LOEB To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l'amour, - Il faut un sourd)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE "The self is hateful." But "I" is passable. ("Le moi est haïssable". - Mais le Je est passable.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The self is hateful." But "I" is passable. ("Le moi est haïssable". - Mais le Je est passable.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Je suis content que tu aies trouvé ton livre, Steve. Tout le monde y arrive, un jour ou l'autre. Il...
FRANçOIS GRAVEL Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.
NICOLAS JARRY L’impossible, nous ne l’atteignons pas, mais il nous sert de lanterne.
RENE CHAR Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE L'aube approche. Elle n'est plus qu'à quelques pas de cette zone étrange qui sépare la nuit du jo...
ELIF SHAFAK Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-là à la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fal...
JEAN ANOUILH We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It takes nine tailors to make a man.
[Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
JOHN HEYWOOD On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que...
BARUCH SPINOZA Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE L'avenir, il y faut travailler comme les tisseurs de haute lice travaillent à leurs tapisseries, sa...
HENRIK IBSEN To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep.
Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo...
CARL MATHIEU Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.
KATHERINE HOWE Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
VOLTAIRE non seulement le passé n’est jamais mort, mais il n’est même pas passé
HANNAH ARENDT Reprenant une goulée de cervoise, le capitaine s’essuya les lèvres avec sa manche, se pencha ver...
CYRILLE MENDES Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Notre plus grand mérite n’est pas de ne jamais tomber, mais de nous relever à chaque fois.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Notre devoir n’est pas de nous débarrasser du fou, mais de débarrasser le fou de sa folie.
ALBERT LONDRES Le combat narcissique durerait aussi longtemps que la sociabilité elle-même, il en serait l'ultime...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co...
ERRI DE LUCA La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de...
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la ...
TZVETAN TODOROV La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.
PHILIP ROTH Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra...
ALBERT CAMUS It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. ...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Une catastrophe, en général et quelle que soit sa nature, s'annonce avec fracas, a son lot de sign...
LUCAS VALLERIE Un coup du sort est une blessure qui s’inscrit dans notre histoire, ce n’est pas un destin.
BORIS CYRULNIK Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, - Tout est beau, mais seul)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Ariette III
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quell...
PAUL VERLAINE The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le...
LAURENT BETTONI Et l'amour, où tout est facile,
Où tout est donné dans l'instant;
Il existe au milieu d...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
[Fr., Il y a du m...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f...
YōKO OGAWA Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant mai...
ARISTODEMUS L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j...
C.G. JUNG J'ai encore un vif souvenir de Freud me disant : "Mon cher Jung, promettez-moi de ne jamais abandonn...
C.G. JUNG La parenté de l'égyptien ancien et du berbère n'est plus à démontrer. Bien que les affinités l...
MOHAMMED CHAFIK We don't build the ruins. Our soul is in hate. (On ne construit des ruines. - Notre âme est dans la...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised
me less.
[Fr., Cela est beau, et ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o...
MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make
the public?
[Fr., Le public! le...
THOMAS CHALMERS Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
[Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) S'il n'avait gardé une dernière illusion, je me réclamerais volontiers d'Omar Khayyam, de ses tri...
EMIL M. CIORAN Évidemment, nous devons prendre le monde tel qu’il est, car s’il n’est pas en notre pouvoir d...
SWAMI RAMDAS La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I w...
RICHARD T. KELLY L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER Mes joues creuses et mon regard perçant ne facilitent pas les choses quand il s'agit de franchir un...
BJøRN GABRIELSEN “In power, it is realism. - There are many quests at every Mass. (Au pouvoir, c'est le réalisme. ...
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VOLTAIRE Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VOLTAIRE Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
VOLTAIRE Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIRE He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIRE The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life
VOLTAIRE Prejudice is the reason of fools
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