You spend most of your life dressed as an adult. Monique Corriveau Monique Chouinard Corriveau is a Quebec writer. She has written several books for young people. Life is a role-playing game and the one most often played is to live as an adult. There is little difference between a child and an adult except that the latter has stifled…
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Making sketches is like planting seeds to grow paintings. Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh, born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands, and died on 29 July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. His work full of naturalism, inspired by Impressionism and Pointillism, heralds Fauvism and Expressionism. Every work, every large-scale work begins…
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Antipathy analyzes better, but sympathy alone understands. André Siegfried André Siegfried, born in Le Havre on 21 April 1875 and died in Paris on 28 March 1959, was a French sociologist, historian and geographer, a pioneer of electoral sociology. Antipathy is mainly driven by our intellect, it is cold and divisive. Its aim is not to understand but to separate.…
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Our societies should be more interested in people’s happiness, not only because it would be economically beneficial, but simply because without happiness there is no real will to build social links. The demand for economic performance makes us forget that living is not only about accumulating capital or finding a way to spend money better. By looking too much…
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Always choose the path that seems best even if it seems more difficult. The habit will soon make it pleasant. Pythagoras Pythagoras (in ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας / Puthagóras) is a pre-Socratic religious reformer and philosopher who is said to have been born around 580 BC on Samos, an island in the Aegean Sea south-east of the city of Athens; his…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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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