“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.”
Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.
Maria Stuart, Act I, sc. viii (1800)
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(1942 - 1944)
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Ce qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs.
Maxim 195.
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