A Quote by Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
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Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
[Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
[Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
The smallest errors are always the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
[Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
[Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux;
Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.
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