The greatest crime is to kill the language of a nation with all that it contains of hope and genius. Charles Nodier Jean-Charles-Emmanuel Nodier was a French writer, novelist and academician (29 April 1780 in Besançon – 27 January 1844 in Paris). He is attributed great importance in the birth of the Romantic movement. What does Charles Nodier wish to…
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The Greatest Reward A Man Gets For His Labour Is Not …
The greatest reward a man gets for his labour is not what he has gotten out of it, but what it has turned him into. John Ruskin John Ruskin, born 8 February 1819 in Bloomsbury, London, died 20 January 1900 in Coniston (Cumbria), was a British writer, poet, painter and art critic. What did the author wish to tell us…
+What Persuades Is The Character Of The Speaker, Not His Language
What persuades is the character of the speaker, not his language. Ménandre Ménandros (in ancient Greek Μένανδρος / Ménandros) is a Greek comic author, disciple of the philosopher Theophrastus. Considered one of the most important representatives of the New Comedy, he worked in the last quarter of the 4th century BC. With this phrase Menander tells us that who we…
+The Important Thing In Life Is Not The Triumph, But The Struggle
The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The important thing is not to have won, but to have fought. Pierre de Coubertin Pierre de Coubertin (born Charles Pierre Fredy de Coubertin), Baron de Coubertin, born on January 1, 1863 in Paris and died on September 2, 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland, was a French historian and…
+Simplicity Of Life Is The Sign Of True Prosperity
Simplicity of life is the sign of true prosperity. Swami Ramdas Swami Ramdas (1884 – 1963) of his real name Vittal Rao is an Indian philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim. He is recognized in India and also in the West as a spiritual master of the Hindu tradition. With this sentence, Swami Ramdas synthesizes an increasingly popular idea that happiness lies…
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