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La liberte est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent. Freedom is the right to do anything the laws permit.
Bre' de et de— 1748 De l'esprit des lois, vol.11, ch.3.
L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.
Blaise Pascal— c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.
Je n'ai fait plus longue que parce queje n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal— 1657 Lettres provinciales, letter16.
On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner. We do not receive wisdom.We must discover it ourselves after experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.
Marcel Proust— 1919 A la recherche du temps perdu,'A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'.
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'.
Si l'on veut se faire une idée de l'amour-propre des femmes, dans leur jeunesse, qu'on en juge par celui qui leur reste, après qu'elles ont passé l'âge de plaire.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées, #361If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.Maxims and Considerations, #361
Le public est gouverné comme il raisonne. Son droit est de dire des sottises, comme celui des ministres est d'en faire.
nicolas chamfort— The public is governed as it reasons; its own prerogative is foolish speech and that of its governors is foolish action.Maximes et Pensées, #503
On peut être honnête homme et faire mal des vers.
molière— Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
— Act IV, sc. i.
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.
Heaven & earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people. Here are mountaines, hils, plaines, valleyes, rivers, and brookes, all running most pleasantly into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull and delightsome land.
john smith— Describing the countryside around Chesapeake Bay (1606); reported in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles (1907), vol. 2, pp. 44–45.
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser— An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 139.
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,No arborett with painted blossoms drestAnd smelling sweete, but there it might be fowndTo bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
Edmund Spenser— Canto 6, stanza 12.
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.
Simone Weil, I maintain this now, is the only great spirit of our times and I hope that those who realize this have enough modesty to not try to appropriate her overwhelming witnessing.
For my part, I would be satisfied if one could say that in my place, with the humble means at my disposal, I served to make known and disseminate her work whose full impact we have yet to measure.
— Simone Weil, je le sais encore maintenant, est le seul grand esprit de notre temps et je souhaite que ceux qui le reconnaissent en reçoivent assez de modestie pour ne pas essayer d’annexer ce témoignage bouleversant. Pour moi, je serais comblé si l’on pouvait dire qu’à ma place, et avec les faibles moyens don’t je dispose, j’ai servi à faire connaitre et à répandre son oeuvre dont on n’a pas encore mesuré tout le retentissement.
— In a letter to Weil's mother in 1951.
O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up-groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the visage To thilke God that after his image Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.
Geoffrey Chaucer— Book 5, line 1835-1841.
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.
Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
françois de la rochefoucauld— The stamp of great minds is to suggest much in few words, so, contrariwise, little minds have the gift of talking a great deal and saying nothing.Maxim 142.
Il n'est pas si dangereux de faire du mal à la plupart des hommes que de leur faire trop de bien.
françois de la rochefoucauld— It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.Maxim 238.
Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.
françois de la rochefoucauld— We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.Maxim 442.
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)
Ne peut-on pas remonter jusqu’à ces anciens scélérats, fondateurs illustres de la superstition et du fanatisme, qui, les premiers, ont pris le couteau sur l’autel pour faire des victimes de ceux qui refusaient d’etre leurs disciples?
voltaire— May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their disciples?Letter to Frederick II of Prussia (December 1740), published in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Vol. 7 (1869), edited by Georges Avenel, p. 105; as translated by Richard Aldington
On en trouve [l'argent] toujours quand il s’agit d’aller faire tuer des hommes sur la frontière: il n’y en a plus quand il faut les sauver.
voltaire— Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so."Charity" (1770).
Il [le Chevalier de Belle-Isle] était capable de tout imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire.
— He (the Chevalier de Belle-Isle) was capable of imagining all, of arranging all, and of doing everything.
— Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XV, Works, XXI, p. 67.
Ah, Foole! faint heart faire lady n'ere could win.
— Phineas Fletcher, Brittain's Ida, Canto V, Stanza 1. William Ellerton—George a-Greene. Ballad written about 1569. A Proper New Ballad in Praise of My Lady Marques. (1569). Reprint Philobiblian So. 1867, p. 22. Early use in Camden's Remaines. (Ed. 1814). Originally published with Spenser's name on the title page.
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Blaise Pascal— I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, 16 (Dec. 14, 1656).
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
"What is thy name, faire maid?" quoth he. "Penelophon, O King," quoth she.
— Thomas Percy, Reliques. King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid.
Ah! comme vous dites, il faut glisser sur bien des pensées, et ne faire pas semblant de les voir.
— Ah! as you say, we should slip over many thoughts and act as though we did not perceive them.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Lettres, 70; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
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.
