Famous saying & Quotes

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A compilation of famous and time-honoured French sayings & quotes.


Famous Sayings & Quotes | Les Dictons et les Citations Célèbres


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

E:  Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire
F:  A fool can always find an even bigger fool to admire him

E:  Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire
F:  It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them

E:  L'orgueil est le consolateur des faibles
F:  Pride is the consolation of the weak

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

E:  Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu
F:  Generally speaking, the people who know little speak a lot and the people who know a lot speak little

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

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

E:  La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile
F:  Criticism is easy, art is difficult

E:  Un verre de vin par jour, la santé pour toujours
F:  A glass of wine a day, health for always

E:  Rien ne pèse tant que un secret
F:  Nothing weighs more than a secret

E:  Comprendre, c'est pardoner
F:  To understand is to forgive

E:  Il faut jouir de la vie
F:  One must enjoy life



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