Les hommes n'arrivent pas à s'unir par leurs mérites, mais s'ajustent les uns aux autres par leurs infériorités — par leur Amour du bavardage, ou par simple tolérance ou bonté animale.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved.
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me too thy nobleness has taught
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —