Anatole France: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)

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“Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths.”

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Anatole France libro L'isola dei pinguini

Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. I : Life Of Saint Mael
Penguin Island (1908)

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

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Anatole France libro The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
La Bûche [The Log] (November 30, 1859)
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”

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De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.
Le Petit Pierre (1918), ch. XXXIII

“You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”

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On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.
L'Humanité (18 July 1922)

“And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.”

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Philopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8
The White Stone (1905)

“It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.”

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Il est bon que le cœur soit naïf et que l’esprit ne le soit pas.
Series II : M. Jules Lemaître http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/M._Jules_Lema%C3%AEtre
The Literary Life (1888-1892)

“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem — and in my esteem age is not estimable.”

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George Gordon, Lord Byron, from The Works of Lord Byron, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1901), vol. V: Letters and Journals, ch. XXIII: "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821 - 18 May 1822), paragraph 72 (p. 445)
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“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.”

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S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.
Le Lys Rouge http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lys_rouge/I [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 1

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will.”

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No government ought to be without censors: & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson, letter http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl100.htm to George Washington (9 September 1792)
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“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”

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L'ignorance et l'erreur sont nécessaires à la vie comme le pain et l'eau.
Pierre Nozière http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierre_Nozi%C3%A8re_-_Livre_deuxi%C3%A8me._Notes_%C3%A9crites_par_Pierre_Noziere_en_marge_de_son_gros_Plutarque. (1899), book II: Notes écrites par Pierre Nozière en marge de son gros Plutarque

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.”

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Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu, quand il ne veut pas signer. — Théophile Gautier, La Croix de Berny (1845), letter III: Edgard Meilhan au Prince de Monbert http://books.google.com/books?id=3TEtAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=%22le+pseudonyme+de+Dieu,+quand+il+ne+veut+pas+signer%22&ei=twPuR9TxGYXaygSI-5mYDg
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“The holy man, persuaded that they belonged to some idolatrous people and that in their own language they gave adherence to the Christian faith, invited them to receive baptism.
"I think," said he to them, "that you bathe often, for all the hollows of the rocks are full of pure water, and as I came to your assembly I saw several of you plunging into these natural baths. Now purity of body is the image of spiritual purity."
And he taught them the origin, the nature, and the effects of baptism.
"Baptism," said he to them, "is Adoption, New Birth, Regeneration, Illumination."
And he explained each of these points to them in succession.
Then, having previously blessed the water that fell from the cascades and recited the exorcisms, he baptized those whom he had just taught, pouring on each of their heads a drop of pure water and pronouncing the sacred words.
And thus for three days and three nights he baptized the birds.”

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Anatole France libro L'isola dei pinguini

Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. V : The Baptism Of The Penguins
Penguin Island (1908)

“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.”

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Les plus beaux mots du monde ne sont que de vains sons, si on ne les comprend pas.
Series I : Propos de rentrée: la terre et la langue http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Propos_de_rentr%C3%A9e_:_la_terre_et_la_langue
The Literary Life (1888-1892)

“A pretext presented itself; some insult needed to be avenged, or some debt to be collected. Six battleships, fourteen cruisers, and eighteen transports sailed up the mouth of the river Hippopotamus. Six hundred canoes vainly opposed the landing of the troops. Admiral Vivier des Murenes' cannons produced an appalling effect upon the blacks, who replied to them with flights of arrows, but in spite of their fanatical courage they were entirely defeated. Popular enthusiasm was kindled by the newspapers which the financiers subsidised, and burst into a blaze. Some Socialists alone protested against this barbarous, doubtful, and dangerous enterprise. They were at once arrested.”

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Anatole France libro L'isola dei pinguini

Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)

“You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.”

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Origine: The White Stone (1905), Ch. VI, p. 237

“I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.”

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Anatole France libro The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

La Bûche [The Log] (December 24, 1849)
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

“It is not likely," remarked Joséphin Leclerc, "that the future will be such as you have seen it. I do not wish for the coming of socialism, but I dread it not. Collectivism at the helm would be quite another thing than is imagined. Who was it who said, carrying back his thoughts to the time of Constantine and of the Church's early triumphs : 'Christianity is triumphant, but its triumph is subject to the conditions imposed by life on all political and religious parties. All of them, whatever they may be, undergo so complete a transformation in the struggle that after victory there remains of themselves but the name and a few symbols of the last idea'?”

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Origine: The White Stone (1905), Ch. VI, p. 238

“Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.”

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Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
Le Jardin d'Épicure http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Jardin_d%E2%80%99%C3%89picure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
Variant translation: Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

“He had no knowledge and had no desire to acquire any; wherein he conformed to his genius whose engaging fragility he forbore to overload; his instinct fortunately telling him that it was better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”

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Il ne savait rien, ne voulait rien savoir, en quoi il se conformait à son génie, dont il ne surchargeait point l’aimable petitesse, et son heureux instinct lui conseillait de comprendre peu plutôt que de comprendre mal.
La Révolte des Anges http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_R%C3%A9volte_des_anges_-_1 [The Revolt of the Angels], (1914), ch. I

“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”

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Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
L’Étui de nacre: Le Procurateur de Judée http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Procurateur_de_Jud%C3%A9e [Mother of Pearl: The Procurator of Judea] (1892)