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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. [Fr., Ils ne se servent de la pensee que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour deguiser leurs pensees.] - Dialogue XIV--Le Chapon et al Poularde [Speech] The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. [Fr., The secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.] - Discours Preliminaire [Talk] If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. [Fr., Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.] - Epitre a l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (CXI) [God] He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. [Fr., Qui n'est que juste est dur, qui n'est que sage est triste.] [More accurately: He who is but just is severe, he who is but wise is sad. Or, more idiomatically: He who is only just is severe, he who is only wise is sad.] - Epitre au Roi de Prusse [Comparison : Justice : Wisdom] We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. [Fr., Il faut distinguer entre parler pour tromper et se taire pour etre impenetrable.] - Essai sur les Moeurs (ch. CLXIII) [Speech] Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire. - Essay on the Morals of the Holy Empire of the Hapsburgs [Names] To them it seemed that the gifts of an enemy were to be dreaded. [Fr., Les dons d'un ennemi leur semblainte trop a craindre.] - Henriade (ch. II) [Enemies] He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. [Fr., Tel brille au second rang, qui s'eclipse au premier.] - Henriade (I) [Fame] What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. [Fr., C'est un poids bien pesant qu'un nom trop tot fameux.] - Henriade (III) [Fame] All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] - L'Enfant Prodigue--Preface [Style] The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde, Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.] - L'Indiscret (I, i) [Beginnings] History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. [Fr., L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.] - L'Ingenu (X) [History] Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god. [Fr., Tes destins sont d'un homme, et tes voeux sont d'un dieu.] - La Liberte [Destiny] Thou sleepest, Brutus, and yet Rome is in chains. [Lat., Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers.] - La Mort de Cesar (II, 2) [Sleep] He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. [Fr., Qui se croit sage, o ciel! est en grand fou.] - Le Droit du Seigneur (VI, 1) [Folly] Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.] - Le Fanatisme (I, 2) [Love of Country] My life is a struggle. [Fr., Ma vie est un combat.] - Le Fanatisme (II, 4) [Life] Prejudice, friend, govern the vulgar crowd. [Fr., Les prejuges, ami, sont les rois du vulgaire.] - Le Fanatisme (II, 4) [Public] The superfluous, a very necessary thing. [Fr., Le superflu, chose tres necessaire.] - Le Mondain [Necessity] It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. [Fr., Le lache fuit en vain; la mort vole a sa suite: C'est en la defiant que le brave l'evite.] - Le Triumvirat (IV, 7) [Death] There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. - Letter to Cardinal de Bernis [Truth] I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me. - Letter to M. Damilaville, May 16, 1767 [Ridicule] It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. [Lat., On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.] - Letter to M. le Riche [War] Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.] - Lettre a Bordes [Satire] He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. [Fr., Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son age, De son age a tout le malheur.] - Lettre a Cideville [Progress] Displaying page 6 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7
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