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Maxim Gorky

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ALBERT EINSTEIN Évidemment, nous devons prendre le monde tel qu’il est, car s’il n’est pas en notre pouvoir d...
SWAMI RAMDAS Quand tout le monde est militaire, le crime est de ne pas tuer si l'order 'exige.
ALBERT CAMUS Posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout ...
PIERRE CLAUDE N. LA CHAUSSEE A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE L’enfer, ce n’est pas les autres, c’est l’obligation de vivre avec eux.
SYLVAIN TESSON Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable.
Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… M...
HUGO PRATT Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.
MOLIèRE Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage..."
"On ne nait pas courageux, on...
MARJANE SATRAPI Je veux vivre avant de mourir.
JENNY DOWNHAM Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les...
ALAIN FINKIELKRAUT He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne sa...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Voyager, c'est vivre dans toute la plénitude du mot; c'est oublier le passé et l'avenir pour le pr...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS « La façon zen de vivre : PAS D'EGO, PAS DE PROBLEMES. »
KUNCHOK On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je...
GEORGES HALDAS Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
JACK KEROUAC He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cer...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen...
ALBERT CAMUS We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.
RENEE REPOUND L’art de vivre consiste en un subtil mélange entre lâcher prise et tenir bon.
HENRI LEWIS La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.
MAHATMA GANDHI Chaque fois que tu te prépares à critiquer quelqu'un, m'a-t-il dit, souviens-toi qu'en venant sur ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre
GUY DEBORD Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
ALBERT CAMUS On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Su...
DANIEL PENNAC Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC Je suis content que tu aies trouvé ton livre, Steve. Tout le monde y arrive, un jour ou l'autre. Il...
FRANçOIS GRAVEL Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Alors, Hermione, tu admires toujours autant Lockhart, maintenant? dit Ron à travers le rideau. Si H...
J.K. ROWLING Exister c’est oser se jeter dans le monde.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.
VOLTAIRE All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuy...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d...
MARQUIS DE SADE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE le moi est avant tout une instance de maitrise. C est un système de défense au service du principe...
CATHERINE MILLOT Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty toge...
SYLVIA PLATH La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I w...
RICHARD T. KELLY I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to creat...
NELL CARTER It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the ...
ROBERT METZGER It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Tout le monde voulait être dans le coup ce jour-là. Car, ce jour-là, on allait écrire l'Histoire...
THOMAS KENEALLY Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and cons...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL Parfois, écrire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jamb...
RAINBOW ROWELL America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE C'est bien en nous que se féconde le plus joyeux et doux jardin du monde.
ÉMILE VERHAEREN Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, l...
JOHN MACKEY [...] l'homme, lui aussi, est un être dualiste. Le problème de son âme consiste dans le conflit e...
THOMAS MANN The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which...
CLAUDE JULIEN The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense pl...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Tout comme il existe des coups de foudre en amour, il y a quelques fois des coups de foudre en amiti...
GUILLAUME MUSSO La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en...
KARL MARX D’où viennent ces influences mystérieuses qui changent en découragement notre bonheur et notre ...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artist...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
MAXIM GORKY It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies...
GORKY MAXIM When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itsel...
MAXIM GORKY One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zyk...
MAXIM GORKY Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once h...
MAXIM GORKY The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiasti...
MAXIM GORKY In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKY We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We dri...
MAXIM GORKY Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme
MAXIM GORKY There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no o...
MAXIM GORKY A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
MAXIM GORKY What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. Th...
MAXIM GORKY Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid
MAXIM GORKY Many contemporary authors drink more than they write
MAXIM GORKY The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.
MAXIM GORKY Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be conside...
MAXIM GORKY Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those ...
MAXIM GORKY When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself ...
MAXIM GORKY One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty
MAXIM GORKY In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere
MAXIM GORKY we people at the bottom feel everything; but it is hard for us to speak out our hearts. our thoughts...
MAXIM GORKY However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful...
MAXIM GORKY What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural preju...
MAXIM GORKY When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKY And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are f...
MAXIM GORKY Here I've been living along, year after year, forty of them behind me, with a wife and children, and...
MAXIM GORKY Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
MAXIM GORKY The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of...
MAXIM GORKY Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for your...
MAXIM GORKY 'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings...
LEROY NEIMAN Le rire est tout ce que l'on voudrait être, ou plus exactement, tout ce que l'on voudrait que chacu...
FRANçOISE SAGAN The soul is like pollen: we remember it. (L'âme est comme le pollen : - Elle fait souvenir d'elle.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE La mort est comme la naissance :
un passage vers un nouveau monde
dont nous ne pouvons rie...
FRéDéRIC LENOIR Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se...
ÉMILE DURKHEIM Mais Frida ne se représente pas comme un personnage sacré, car elle constate son état avec une cr...
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LEGAL MAXIM Today's society makes me cry.
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LEGAL MAXIM He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
LEGAL MAXIM False in one thing, false in everything
LEGAL MAXIM No man can give what he has not
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LEGAL MAXIM Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee
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LEGAL MAXIM That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain
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