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Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Frédéric Bastiat
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L’Etat c'est la grande fiction par laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tous les autres.Or translated into English.
The state is this great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was the author of many works on economics, containing many strongly-worded attacks on statist and protectionist policies. His two most renowned books were "The Law" and "Economic Sophisms".
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Voltaire
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Il est dangereux d'avoir raison quand le gouvernement a tort.Or translated into English.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.François-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694 – 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties.
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Omar Khayyam
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Referme ton Coran. Pense et regarde librement le Ciel et la Terre.Or translated into English.
Close your Quran. Think free and look as a freed man to the Sky and the Earth.Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and Islam critic. Despite a strong Islamic training, he was undevout and had no sympathy with popular religion. He rejected the laws of Allah and supported the view that laws of nature explained all phenomena of observed life.
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Henri Poincaré
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La pensée ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni à un dogme, ni à un parti, ni à une passion, ni à un intérêt, ni à une idée préconçue, ni à quoi que ce soit, si ce n'est aux faits eux-mêmes, parce que, pour elle, se soumettre, ce serait cesser d'être.Or translated into English.
Reason must always depend on facts and must never be oppressed, not by a dogma, not by a political party, not by a passion, not by a special interest, not by a biased conviction, not by anything else, because any form of oppression makes reason disappear as a whole.Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Known as polymath and as the "Last Universalist", he excelled in all fields of mathematics as existed during his lifetime.
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Voltaire
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Je hais vos idées mais je me ferai tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer.Or translated into English.
I despise your ideas, but I will defend to the death your right to express them.François-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694 – 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties.
More information on Voltaire on www.wikipedia.org.
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Oscar Wilde
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Nous portons des chaînes, bien que l'oeil ne les voie pas, et nous sommes esclaves bien qu'on nous appelle des hommes libres.Or translated into English.
We all live in iron chains, although our eyes can't see them, and we all remain slaves, although we call ourselves free men.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.
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