Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."
InLibroVeritas
- 21 juil.
- 5 Min
Joubert : The Author, Drawn by Himself
"I long to make wisdom current coin, that is to say to stamp it into maxims, proverbs, sentences, easy to retain, and to hand on."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 janv.
- 4 Min
"A nice cup of tea", by George Orwell
"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 oct. 2021
- 2 Min
Pablo Neruda : Ode to Arthur Rimbaud
"Now, this October you will turn a hundred, harrowing friend. May I speak to you ? I’m alone..."
InLibroVeritas
- 19 juin 2021
- 2 Min
"Chinese Parable", by Hermann Hesse
"AN OLD MAN named Chunglang, which means ‘Master Rock’, owned a small farm in the mountains."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 juin 2021
- 3 Min
"A Fable", by Mark Twain
"Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror..."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 mai 2021
- 5 Min
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Man and Nature
"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 mai 2021
- 9 Min
"Assez ! Extrait du journal d'un peintre défunt" (Ivan Tourgueniev)
"« Assez ! » me disais-je à moi-même, en gravissant péniblement le flanc d'une montagne escarpée..."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 mai 2021
- 14 Min
"Campement dans l'obscurité", par Robert-Louis Stevenson
"Je m’étais trouvé, à l’étranger, dans maintes nuits obscures, mais jamais dans une nuit plus obscure."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 mai 2021
- 5 Min
"The Art of Solitude", by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
« “No man is an island,” said John Donne. I feel we are all islands — in a common sea. »
InLibroVeritas
- 20 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"A Fairy World", by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Maïa ! Is she indeed the true goddess ? Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"The Laugh" (Albert Camus ; The Fall)
"I was about to light a cigarette, the cigarette of satisfaction, when, at that very moment, a laugh burst out behind me."
InLibroVeritas
- 17 mai 2021
- 4 Min
Petrarch's Melancholy
"S. Augustine. : You are the victim of a terrible plague of the soul — melancholy ; which the moderns call accidie..."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 mai 2021
- 5 Min
Emil Cioran : A Portrait of Civilized Man
"Civilization, our drug, has so poisoned us that our dependence on it is an addiction, a mixture of ecstasy and curse."
InLibroVeritas
- 10 mai 2021
- 6 Min
Des Esseintes and his books (Huysmans, Against the Grain)
"That day, Des Esseintes took this incomparable book from his shelves and handled it devotedly..."
InLibroVeritas
- 9 mai 2021
- 7 Min
Henry David Thoreau : Mind and Nature
"There is, no doubt, a perfect analogy between the life of the human and that of the vegetable, both of the body and the mind."
InLibroVeritas
- 7 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"Something Defeasible", by Max Beerbohm
"It looked as though it had been built for all time. But this was not so. For it was built on sand, and of sand; and the tide was coming..."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"The black trees stood around me, rustling, and I loved them. Stars shone down from above, and I breathed in their white salutation."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 mai 2021
- 6 Min
"My Silent Confidant", by Søren Kierkegaard
"Who am I ? How did I get into the world ? Why was I not asked about it ?"
InLibroVeritas
- 5 mai 2021
- 5 Min
"Going out for a walk", by Max Beerbohm
"When I grew up it seemed to me that the one advantage of living in London was that nobody ever wanted me to come out for a walk."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 mai 2021
- 3 Min
"La Vie drôle", par Alphonse Allais
"Je viens d'accomplir une plaisanterie complètement idiote, mais dont le souvenir me causera longtemps encore de vives allégresses."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 avr. 2021
- 8 Min
"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", by Hermann Hesse
"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 avr. 2021
- 5 Min
"De la philosophie", par Madame de Staël
"La philosophie, dont je crois utile et possible aux âmes passionnées d'adopter les secours, est de la nature la plus relevée."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 avr. 2021
- 7 Min
"The Beautiful Dream", by Hermann Hesse
"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."
