
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
Source: First Love
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
Source: First Love
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre.
The Immoralist, Chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MPmRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Savoir+se+lib%C3%A9rer+n'est+rien+l'ardu+c'est+savoir+%C3%AAtre+libre%22&jtp=17#v=onepage (1902)
The Immoralist (1902)
Original: (it) Chi sa donare vero amore appartiene esclusivamente a quella rarità di esseri viventi, capaci di cambiare il mondo.
Source: prevale.net
“…to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing…”
Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 1.
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 90
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 4.
Theology and Mysticism
“How can you own […] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.”
In his video account on the creation of TeX http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth/52?o=SH, he comments that Xerox offered to allow him to use their equipment, but that the fonts he created would belong to them.
“How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!”
Letter to Mr. Fitzpatrick (30 July 1789) on the fall of the Bastille, printed in J. Russell (ed.), Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. Volume II (London: Richard Bentley, 1853), p. 361.
1780s
As quoted in Perfecting Ourselves : Coordinating Body, Mind, and Spirit (2002) by Aaron Hoopes, p. 64
Posthumous publications