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Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.
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Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.

nicholas boileau-despréaux

— Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
— Canto I, l. 64.

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His voice was a conduit to heaven.

nusrat fateh ali khan

— 'Aryn Baker' - TIME 2006 article Time 2006

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Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas,Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface,Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas.


— O'er the ice the rapid skater flies,<brWith sport above and death below,Where mischief lurks in gay disguiseThus lightly touch and quickly go.
— Pierre Charles Roy, lines under a picture of skaters, a print of a painting by Lancret. Translation by Samuel Johnson. See Piozzi, Anecdotes.

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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Albert Camus

— Pauvre et libre plutôt que riche et asservi. Bien entendu les hommes veulent être et riches et libres et c’est ce qui les conduit quelquefois à être pauvres et esclaves.

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Ce n'est point l'observation mais la théorie qui m'a conduit à ce résultat que l'expérience a ensuite confirmé.

augustin-jean fresnel

— It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
explaining how he was led to discover the law characterizing interference fringes, in Œuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel. Imprimerie impériale. 1866. p. 61. 

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L'homme croit souvent se conduire lorsqu'il est conduit; et pendant que par son esprit il tend à un but, son coeur l'entraîne insensiblement à un autre.

françois de la rochefoucauld

— A man will often believe himself a leader when he is led; while with his mind he endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him toward another.
Maxim 43.

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Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas, Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface, Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas.


— O'er the ice the rapid skater flies,<brWith sport above and death below,
Where mischief lurks in gay disguise
Thus lightly touch and quickly go.
— Pierre Charles Roy, lines under a picture of skaters, a print of a painting by Lancret. Translation by Samuel Johnson. See Piozzi, Anecdotes.

Tags: mince, chrystal, l'hyver, leurs, Telle, plaisirs, legere, surface, mortels

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