Rochefoucauld híres idézetei
Rochefoucauld Idézetek a szenvedélyről
Rochefoucauld idézetek
Rochefoucauld: Idézetek angolul
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.”
Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté.
Maxim 496.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
Maxim 142.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée.
Maxim 375.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.”
La vivacité qui augmente en vieillissant ne va pas loin de la folie.
Maxim 416.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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Nous aurions souvent honte de nos plus belles actions, si le monde voyoit tous les motifs qui les produisent.
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Maxim 409.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“There are people who would never be in love had they not heard [others] speak of love”
Il y a des gens qui n'auraient jamais été amoureux s'ils n'avaint jamais entendu parler de l'amour.
Maxim 136. Variant translations:
People would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard love talked about.
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.
Maxim 22. Compare: "This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey", Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
L’extrême plaisir que nous prenons à parler de nous-mêmes nous doit faire craindre de n’en donner guere à ceux qui nous écoutent.
Translation by E.H. Blackmore et. al., in Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, de La Rochefoucauld, Oxford University Press (2008) : ISBN 019162313X
Maxim 314
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.”
En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage.
Maxim 210.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.”
Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que de vices déguisés.
Epigraph. Note: "This epigraph, which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is found in another form as No. 179 of the Maxims of the first edition, 1665; it is omitted from the second and third, and reappears for the first time in the fourth edition at the head of the Reflections". Aime Martin, editor, Bartlett's Quotations, 1919 edition.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres.
Maxim 31.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Those who know their minds do not know their hearts.”
Tous ceux qui connaissent leur esprit ne connaissent pas leur coeur.
Maxim 103.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.”
Le mal que nous faisons ne nous attire pas tant de persécution et de haine que nos bonnes qualités.
Maxim 29.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so.”
Le désir de paraître habile empêche souvent de le devenir.
Maxim 199.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Only firm people can be truly soft.”
Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la fermeté qui puissent avoir une véritable douceur.
Variant translation: It is only those who are firm who can be genuinely kind.
Maxim 479.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”
Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus à la haine qu'à l'amitié.
Maxim 72.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Dans toutes les professions chacun affecte une mine et un extérieur pour paraître ce qu'il veut qu'on le croie. Ainsi on peut dire que le monde n'est composé que de mines.
Variant translation: In all professions, each affects a part and an appearance to make him seem as he would wish to be believed. And so it is that one can say that the world is made only of appearances.
Maxim 256.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits.”
La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits.
Variant translation: Gratitude is the lively expectation of favours yet to come.
Maxim 298. Compare: "The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours", attributed to Sir Robert Walpole.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Maxim 174.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.”
Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.
Variant translation: With true love it's like with the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
Maxim 76.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), VII. On Air and Manner
Kontextus: Few men, nevertheless, can have unison in many matters without being a copy of each other, if each follow his natural turn of mind. But in general a person will not wholly follow it. He loves to imitate. We often imitate the same person without perceiving it, and we neglect our own good qualities for the good qualities of others, which generally do not suit us.
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), III. On Taste
Kontextus: Some have a species of instinct (the source of which they are ignorant of), and decide all questions that come before them by its aid, and always decide rightly. These follow their taste more than their intelligence, because they do not permit their temper and self-love to prevail over their natural discernment. All they do is in harmony, all is in the same spirit. This harmony makes them decide correctly on matters, and form a correct estimate of their value. But speaking generally there are few who have a taste fixed and independent of that of their friends, they follow example and fashion which generally form the standard of taste.
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), VII. On Air and Manner
Kontextus: There is an air which belongs to the figure and talents of each individual; we always lose it when we abandon it to assume another. We should try to find out what air is natural to us and never abandon it, but make it as perfect as we can. This is the reason that the majority of children please. It is because they are wrapt up in the air and manner nature has given them, and are ignorant of any other. They are changed and corrupted when they quit infancy, they think they should imitate what they see, and they are not altogether able to imitate it. In this imitation there is always something of falsity and uncertainty. They have nothing settled in their manner and opinions. Instead of being in reality what they want to appear, they seek to appear what they are not.
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), VII. On Air and Manner
“Small minds are hurt by the smallest things”
Les petits esprits sont blessés des plus petites choses
Maxime 34 from the 1705 Amsterdam edition https://books.google.com/books?id=pBJgAAAAcAAJ&q=%22des+plus+petites+choses%22#v=snippet&q=%22des%20plus%20petites%20choses%22&f=false
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.
Maxim 26. Sometimes incorrectly translated as "with a steady eye".
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.”
C'est une ennuyeuse maladie que de conserver sa santé par un trop grand régime.
Maxim 72 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), VII. On Air and Manner