Henry David Thoreau citations célèbres
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau Citations
“Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins”
Variante: Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins.
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Je suis simplement ce que je suis: Lettres à Harrison G.O. Blake
Henry David Thoreau: Citations en anglais
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Source: Walden
“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
Source: Walking (June 1862)
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
Source: Walden
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
Source: Walden
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Life Without Principle (1863)
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Source: Walden
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods