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
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
Variante: What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.”
1847
Journals (1838-1859)
Variante: Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”
Source: Walden
“I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.”
Source: Walden
Variante: I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”
Source: Walden
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Thursday