2011-07-04

Famous French Quotes

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French: Faites-vous des amis prompts à vous censurer.
English: Make friends with those who would be quick to criticize you.
Boileu

French: Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.
English: Man's greatest weakness is his love of life.
Molière

French: La vérité vaut bien qu'on passe quelques années sans la trouver.
English: Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.
Renard

French: La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoin ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.
English: True valor is to do in secrecy what you could just have easily done before others.
La Rochefoucauld

French: A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.
English: To win without risk is a triumph without glory.
Corneille

French: Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l'ennui, le vice et le besoin.
English: Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.
Voltaire.

French: Quiconque flatte ses maîtres les trahit.
English: He who flatters his superiors betrays them.
Massillon.

French: Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on, le malheur est qu'il tue ses élèves.
English: We say that time is a great teacher. It's too bad that it also kills all its students.
Berlioz.

French: Comprendre, c'est pardoner.
English: To understand is to forgive.
De Stael.

French:Le vrai philosphe n'attend rien des homes, et il leur fait tout le bien don't il est capable
English: The true philosopher expects nothing from others and offers them the best he can give them
Voltaire.

French: Les grandes pensées viennent du coeur.
English: The greatest thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues

French: La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile.
English: Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
Destouches.

French: Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.
English: Generally speaking, the people who know little speak a lot and the people who know a lot speak little.
Rousseau

French:Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profundeur, ils vous le donnent en longueur.
English: Whatever a speaker is missing in depth he will compensate for in length.
Montesquieu.

French: Rien ne pèse tant que un secret.
English: Nothing weighs more than a secret.
La Fonataine.

French: La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée.
English: We were given speech to hide our thoughts.
Talleyrand.

French: La cuisine, c'est quand les choses ont le goût de ce qu'elles sont.
English: Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are. Curnonsky.

French: Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
English: A fool can always find an even bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau.

French: Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire.
English: It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them.
De La Sabliére.

French: L'orgueil est le consolateur des faibles.
English: Pride is the consolation of the weak.
Vauvenargues.

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