John Milton citations célèbres
“[…], la paix ne corrompt pas moins que la guerre ne dévaste.”
Le Paradis perdu ('), 1667 et 1674
“Celui qui a vaincu par la force, n’a vaincu qu’à moitié son ennemi.”
Le Paradis perdu ('), 1667 et 1674
“[…], régner est digne d’ambition, même en enfer; mieux vaut régner en enfer que servir le ciel.”
Le Paradis perdu (Paradise Lost), 1667 et 1674
John Milton: Citations en anglais
“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
Hymn, stanza 1, line 29
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
To the Lady Margaret Ley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
On His Blindness (1652)
Compare "Patience is also a form of action." Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: Leonard William Doob (1990). Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection. p. 124