19 sayings with source references.
Toute carrière a ses aspirants qui font cortège aux arrivés. Pas une puissance qui n’ait son entourage ; pas une fortune qui n’ait sa cour.Every career has its aspirants who escort the newcomers. There is no power that does not have its entourage; no fortune that does not have its court.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesles choses les plus sublimes sont souvent aussi les choses les moins comprisesthe most sublime things are often also the least understood
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesL’égout est le vice que la ville a dans le sang.The sewer is the vice that runs in the city's blood.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean
Read the saying and check its sourcesVoici la nuance : la porte du médecin ne doit jamais être fermée ; la porte du prêtre doit toujours être ouverte.Here is the nuance: the doctor's door must never be closed; the priest's door must always be open.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesHélas ! Dieu donne l’air aux hommes, la loi le leur vend. Je n’accuse pas la loi, mais je bénis Dieu.Alas! God gives air to men, but the law sells it to them. I do not accuse the law, but I bless God.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesOui, les brutalités du progrès s’appellent révolutions. Quand elles sont finies, on reconnaît ceci : que le genre humain a été rudoyé, mais qu’il a marchéYes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, one recognizes this: that the human race has been roughed up, but that it has moved forward.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesL’homme a sur lui la chair qui est tout à la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traîne et lui cède.Man carries upon him the flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it along, and he yields to it.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesVrai ou faux, ce qu'on dit des hommes tient souvent autant de place dans leur vie et surtout dans leur destinée que ce qu'ils font.True or false, what is said of men often occupies as much space in their lives, and above all in their destiny, as what they do.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesil y a toujours encore plus de misère en bas que de fraternité en hautthere is always even more misery below than there is fraternity above
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle trembleThe light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it illuminates poorly, because it trembles.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean
Read the saying and check its sourcesLe progrès doit croire en Dieu. Le bien ne peut pas avoir de serviteur impie. C’est un mauvais conducteur du genre humain que celui qui est athée.Progress must believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servant. He who is an atheist is a poor conductor of the human race.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sources– Ce n'est rien de mourir ; c'est affreux de ne pas vivre.– It is nothing to die; it is terrible not to live.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean
Read the saying and check its sourcesÊtre un saint, c’est l’exception ; être un juste, c’est la règle. Errez, défaillez, péchez, mais soyez des justesTo be a saint is the exception; to be a just man is the rule. Wander, falter, sin, but be just.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesVoyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.To travel is to be born and to die at every moment.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa mort n’appartient qu’à Dieu. De quel droit les hommes touchent-ils à cette chose inconnue ?Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men meddle with this unknown thing?
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesl’homme a un tyran, l’ignoranceman has a tyrant: ignorance
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesLes livres sont des amis froids et sûrs.Books are cold and reliable friends.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa philosophie est le microscope de la pensée.Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean
Read the saying and check its sources– À qui se contente d’un surplis de curé, Dieu envoie une chape d’archevêque.“To those who content themselves with a priest's surplice, God sends an archbishop's cope.”
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorVictor Hugo · Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
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