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L'originalité consiste à essayer de faire comme tout le monde sans y parvenir.
raymond radiguet— Translation: Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.
— As quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955)
La puissance ne consiste pas à frapper fort ou souvent, mais à frapper juste.
honoré de balzac— Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism XLIII
Il y a deux labyrinthes fameux où notre raison s’égare bien souvent:;: l'un regarde la grande question du libre et du nécessaire, surtout dans la production et dans l'origine du mal:;; l'autre consiste dans la discussion de la continuité et des indivisibles qui en paraissent les éléments, et où doit entrer la considération de l'infini.
gottfried leibniz— There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.Essais de Théodicée: Préface] (1710)
L'acte poétique consiste à voir soudain qu'une idée se fractionne en un nombre de motifs égaux par valeur et à les grouper; ils riment .
stéphane mallarmé— The poetic act consists in suddenly seeing that an idea splits into a number of motives of equal value and in grouping them; they rhyme."Crise de Vers", La Revue Blanche (September 1895) as translated in Mallarmé : The Poet and his Circle ([1999] 2005) by Rosemary Lloyd, p. 231
La foi consiste à croire ce que la raison ne croit pas.
voltaire— Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."The Flood" (1764)
En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie.
voltaire— In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."Money" (1770).
Entendia que há larga ponderação de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal.
joaquim maria machado de assis— He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
— Iaiá Garcia (1878) ch. 3; Albert I. Bagby, Jr. (trans.) Iaiá Garcia (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1977) p. 23.
