Patrie Quotes
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Adieu, plaisant pays de France! O, ma patrie La plus cherie, Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance! Adieu, France adieu, mes beaux jours.
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More Patrie Quotes
L'art, de plus en plus, aura une patrie. Art, more and more, will have a country.
Kostrowitzki— 1913 'L'Esprit nouveau et les po e' tes', Mercure de France.
Il est satisfaisant, pour les ministres du peuple libre, d'avoir à lui annoncer que la patrie va être sauvée. [1]
georges danton— It is gratifying to the ministers of a free people to have to announce to them that their country will be saved.
— Speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04) [2]
Le bon historien n'est d'aucun temps ni d'aucun pays: quoiqu'il aime sa patrie, il ne la flatte jamais en rien.
françois fénelon— The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.
— Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 8, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 240; translation by Patrick Riley, from Hans Blom et al. (eds.) Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) p. 86.
That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].
william of malmesbury— On the Battle of Hastings. (M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24.)
L'amour sacré de la patrie.
françois-joachim de pierre de bernis— Epítre sur les Mœurs.Translation: The hallowed love of country.Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 87.
On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.
anatole france— You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.L'Humanité (18 July 1922)
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
african spir— p. 53 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Où est l'amitié est la patrie.
voltaire— Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.Letter to Nicolas-Claude Thieriot (1734).
Que les supplices des criminels soient utiles. Un homme pendu n’est bon à rien, et un homme condamné aux ouvrages publics sert encore la patrie, et est une leçon vivante.
voltaire— Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson."Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws," Dictionnaire philosophique (1785-1789)Note: The Dictionnaire philosophique was a posthumously published collection of articles combining the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif (published under various editions and titles from 1764 to 1777), the Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (published from 1770 to 1774), articles written for the Encyclopédie and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the manuscript known as l'Opinion sur l'alphabet and a number of previously published miscellaneous articles.
Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle.
— Translation: The infant, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
La patrie est aux lieux où l'âme est enchainée .
— Translation: Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
— Voltaire, Le Fanatisme. I. 2.
La patrie est aux lieux où l’on a des amis.
Émile augier— Act III., Scene III. — (translation by Monte-Prade).
— Where we have friends, there is our fatherland.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 112.
