Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal ? ses voisins.
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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
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"Fatherland" (1764).Voltaire
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
African Spir
Amoureux et jaloux de la liberté humaine, et la considérant comme la condition absolue de tout ce que nous adorons et respectons dans l'humanité, je retourne la phrase de Voltaire, et je dis : Si Dieu existait réellement, il faudrait le faire disparaître.
Mikhail Bakunin
If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
Abraham Maslow
Il avait, par grandeur d'âme, fait quelques pas vers la fortune, et par grandeur d'âme il la méprisa.
Nicolas Chamfort
On ne rit plus, on sourit aujourd'hui,
Et nos plaisirs sont voisins a l'eunui.Francois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
Voltaire
von Baeyer, Hans Christian
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