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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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De tant comme femmes ont le corps plus delie que les hommes, plus foible et moins habille a plusieurs choses faire, de tant ont elles l'entendement plus a delivre et plus agu ou elles s'appliquent. Just as women's bodies are more delicate than men's, weaker and less able for many things, so, where they apply themselves, their understanding is freer and sharper.
Christine de Pisan— 1405 Le livre de la Cite des Dames, bk.1, ch.27.
:Tu n'es que la re ponse la plus courte qu'on puisse faire aux questions des hommes. : En sais-tu de meilleur? : Oui. Le mot rien est aussi court que le mot Dieu. :You are only the shortest possible answer to all the questions of men. : Do you know a better one? :Yes, theword no isjust asshort astheword God.
Crayencour— ARIANEDIEUARIANEARIADNEGOD (BACCHUS)ARIADNE1963 Qui n'a pas son Minotaure?, pt.9.
Dieu cre a l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donne une compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude. God created man and, finding him not sufficientlyalone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Vale ry— 1941Tel Quel1,'Moralite s'.
His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.
john aubrey— "John Milton"
Amoureux et jaloux de la liberté humaine, et la considérant comme la condition absolue de tout ce que nous adorons et respectons dans l'humanité, je retourne la phrase de Voltaire, et je dis : Si Dieu existait réellement, il faudrait le faire disparaître.
mikhail bakunin— A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
— Ch. II; Variants or variant translations of this statement have also been attributed to Bakunin:The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.A boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
L’homme jouit du bonheur qu’il ressent, et la femme de celui qu’elle procure. Cette différence, si essentielle et si peu remarquée, influe pourtant, d'une manière bien sensible, sur la totalité de leur conduite respective. Le plaisir de l’un est de satisfaire des désirs, celui de l’autre est surtout de les faire naître.
pierre choderlos de laclos— Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.Letter 130: Madame de Rosemonde to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. Richard Aldington (1924). [11]
Car en mon cuer porte couvertementLe dueil qui soit qui plus me puet desplaire,Et si me fault, pour les gens faire taire,Rire en plorant et très amerementDe triste cuer chanter joyeusement.
— For what would I be otherwise but sport,In love with one who does not care for me?I will hide pain in smiles, sooner than beThe common talk. It is a bitter artTo sing a happy song with a sad heart.
— Rondeau "De triste cuer chanter joyeusement", line 8; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 154, as translated by by Sheenagh Pugh.
Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stoodTill it was finist, as some say, full faire.
john heywood— Rome was not built in one day, said he, and yet stoodTill it was finished, as some say, full fair.
— Part I, chapter 11.
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Blaise Pascal— I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
— Provincial Letters: Letter XVI, 4 December, 1656. [English Translation]
— Literally: I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
— Such statements have also been attributed to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Cicero, and others besides, but this article at Quote Investigator concludes that Pascal's statement is likely the original source of the phrase.
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)
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
cardinal richelieu— If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.As quoted in The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896) by Jehiel K?eeler Hoyt, p. 763
As withered weed through cruell winters tine,That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,Liftes up his head, that did before declineAnd gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.
Edmund Spenser— Canto 12, stanza 34.
il [Zénon] savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.
marguerite yourcenar— The skirmishes with the theologians had had their charm, but he knew well that no lasting accord exists between those who seek, ponder, and dissect and pride themselves on being capable of thinking tomorrow other than they do today, and those who accept the Faith, or declare that they do, and oblige their fellow men to do the same, on pain of death.
— The Indictment, p. 317
Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
Geoffrey Chaucer— General Prologue, l. 122-126.
Faites votre devoir, et laissez faire aux dieux.
pierre corneille— Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.Le vieil Horace, act II, scene viii
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.
— "Mad About Drawing" (p. 64)
S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.
anatole france— If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 1
La tâche de l'éducateur est de faire repasser l'esprit de l'enfant par où a passé celui de ses pères, en passant rapidement par certaines étapes mais en n'en supprimant aucune. À ce compte, l'histoire de la science doit être notre guide.
henri poincaré— The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide."La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement" [Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching], L'enseignement mathématique (1899)
Il ne faut pas comparer la marche de la science aux transformations d’une ville, où les édifices vieillis sont impitoyablement jetés à bas pour faire place aux constructions nouvelles, mais à l’évolution continue des types zoologiques qui se développent sans cesse et finissent par devenir méconnaissables aux regards vulgaires, mais où un œil exercé retrouve toujours les traces du travail antérieur des siècles passés. Il ne faut donc pas croire que les théories démodées ont été stériles et vaines.
henri poincaré— The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile or vain.Introduction, p. 14
À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.
Marcel Proust— From that instant I had not to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where, for so long, my actions had ceased to require any control, or even attention, from my will. Custom came to take me in her arms, carried me all the way up to my bed, and laid me down there like a little child."Combray"
Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?
— The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
— Nicolas Chamfort.
Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage.
— Cut off your nose to spite your face.
— Tallement des Réaux, Historiettes, Volume I, Chapter I. (About 1657–1659); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639.
Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galère?
— What the devil was he doing in this galley?
— Molière, Fourberies de Scapin, Act II, 11. Cyrano de Bergerac, Pédant Joué, Act II, scene 4
L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.
— There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
— Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle, Œuvres, Dialogues des Morts (1683), IV. 32. Ed. 1825. Used by Edward, Lord Oxford, Ms. Common Place Book
When I say capitalism, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez faire capitalism, with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
Ayn Rand— Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), p. 17
Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.
— Rome was not built in one day, said he, and yet stood
Till it was finished, as some say, full fair.
— Part I, chapter 11.
A day after the faire.
— Part I, chapter 8. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
faire son devoir tous les jours et se fier à Dieu, pour le lendemain.
Charles Baudelaire— To do one's duty every day and trust in God for tomorrow.
Laissez faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
benjamin tucker— ¶ 19
faire de la prose sans le savoir.
— To speak prose without knowing it.
— Molière, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, II. 6.
