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Par uspeak le 7 Janvier 2009 à 23:50
nb: Ici ; j'ai souligné les voyelles qu'il faut accentuer. La maîtrise de l'accent tonique est la première étape vers l'excellence du parler américain/anglais.
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Appearances are often deceiving. Aesop 620 BC<o:p></o:p>
When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius 551 BC
Wherever you go, go with all your heart .
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.<o:p></o:p>Change alone is unchanging. Heraclitus. 544 BC <o:p></o:p>
Nothing endures but change. <o:p></o:p>
Character is destiny. <o:p></o:p>
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. <o:p></o:p>
You cannot step into the same river twice. <o:p></o:p>
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. Anaxagoras 500 BC<o:p></o:p>
A lie never lives to be old. Sophocles 496 BC<o:p></o:p>
Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates 469 BC <o:p></o:p>
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.<o:p></o:p>
Knowledge is true opinion. Plato 427 BC <o:p></o:p>
Necessity... the mother of invention.
The wisest have the most authority.
<o:p></o:p>Blushing is the colour of virtue. Diogenes 412 BC<o:p></o:p>
Well begun is half done. Aristotle 384 BC <o:p></o:p>
Nature does nothing uselessly. <o:p></o:p>
The soul never thinks without a picture. <o:p></o:p>
The end of labour is to gain leisure. <o:p></o:p>
Hope is the dream of a walking man.<o:p></o:p>
Age carries all things away, even the mind. Virgil 70 bc<o:p></o:p>
Neither blame or praise yourself. Plutarch 46 ac<o:p></o:p>
Only the educated are free. Epictetus 55 ac <o:p></o:p>
No great thing is created suddenly. <o:p></o:p>
Beware of the person of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225<o:p></o:p>
The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri 1265<o:p></o:p>
Before all else, be armed. Niccolo Machiavelli 1469<o:p></o:p>
The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne. 1533 <o:p></o:p>
I think - therefore I am. Rene Descartes 1596 <o:p></o:p>
One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Blaise Pascal 1623<o:p></o:p>
Better is the enemy of good. Voltaire 1694 <o:p></o:p>
The ear is the avenue to the heart.<o:p></o:p>
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Charles de Montesquieu 1689 <o:p></o:p>
To be is to do. Immanuel Kant 1724 <o:p></o:p>
A person hears only what they understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 <o:p></o:p>
A picture is worth a thousand words. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769<o:p></o:p>
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer1788<o:p></o:p>
Great artists have no country. Alfred de Musset 1810
Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx 1818<o:p></o:p>
Inspiration comes of working every day. Charles Baudelaire 1821<o:p></o:p>
The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844<o:p></o:p>
I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 1854<o:p></o:p>
If youth knew; if age could. Sigmund Freud 1856 <o:p></o:p>
An eye for an eye makes us all blind. Mohandas Gandhi 1869<o:p></o:p>
Words build bridges into unexplored regions. Adolf Hitler 1889<o:p></o:p>
Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 <o:p></o:p>
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 <o:p></o:p>
Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams 1911<o:p></o:p>
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop <o:p></o:p>
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.<o:p></o:p>
I never see what has been done ; I only see what remains to be done.Buddha 563 BC<o:p></o:p>
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius <o:p></o:p>
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.<o:p></o:p>
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work. <o:p></o:p>It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. <o:p></o:p>
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.<o:p></o:p>
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.<o:p></o:p>The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates <o:p></o:p>
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. <o:p></o:p>
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus<o:p></o:p>
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus<o:p></o:p>
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. Virgil 70 bc<o:p></o:p>
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli 1469<o:p></o:p>
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne. 1533<o:p></o:p>
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare 1564<o:p></o:p>
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. Pierre Corneille 1606<o:p></o:p>
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de la Bruyere 1645
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire 1694<o:p></o:p>
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant 1724<o:p></o:p>
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 <o:p></o:p>
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. <o:p></o:p>
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Lord Byron 1788<o:p></o:p>
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain 1835 <o:p></o:p>
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. <o:p></o:p>
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 <o:p></o:p>
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. <o:p></o:p>
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mohandas Gandhi 1869 <o:p></o:p>
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.<o:p></o:p>
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl G. Jung 1875<o:p></o:p>
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein 1879<o:p></o:p>
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda 1893<o:p></o:p>
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov 1860 <o:p></o:p>
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. Emile M. Cioran 1911<o:p></o:p>
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr 1929 <o:p></o:p>
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama 1935 <o:p></o:p>
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. Albert Camus 1960<o:p></o:p>
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play. Boris Becker 1967<o:p></o:p>
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Longer Quotes<o:p></o:p>
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. Virgil 70 bc
<o:p></o:p>If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225<o:p></o:p>
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. Buddha 563 BC<o:p></o:p>
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison 1847<o:p></o:p>
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. Thomas A. Edison 1847 <o:p></o:p>
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. <o:p></o:p>
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. <o:p></o:p>
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein 1879<o:p></o:p>
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 1879<o:p></o:p>
I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting. Che Guevara 1928<o:p></o:p>
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. Muhammad Ali 1942<o:p></o:p>
There is no disguise, which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. Niccolo Machiavelli <o:p></o:p>Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Antonin Artaud <o:p></o:p>
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Voltaire <o:p></o:p>
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. <o:p></o:p>
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde 1854
<o:p></o:p>Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud 1856<o:p></o:p>
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot 1888<o:p></o:p>
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Mohandas Gandhi 1869<o:p></o:p>
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius<o:p></o:p>
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Karl Marx <o:p></o:p>
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Jean de la Bruyere
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius<o:p></o:p>
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus <o:p></o:p>
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle <o:p></o:p>
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato <o:p></o:p>
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. <o:p></o:p>He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates <o:p></o:p>
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
<o:p></o:p>There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? Sophocles<o:p></o:p>
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 <o:p></o:p>
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. <o:p></o:p>
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. Mark Twain 1835<o:p></o:p>
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. <o:p></o:p>Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant <o:p></o:p>
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. Jean de la Bruyere 1645
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la BruyereWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788<o:p></o:p>
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. Franz Kafka 1883
<o:p></o:p>We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. Charles Peguy 1873<o:p></o:p>
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl G. Jung <o:p></o:p>
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran 1911
<o:p></o:p>Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. <o:p></o:p>
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus 1960
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Par uspeak le 5 Janvier 2009 à 16:31
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Par uspeak le 4 Janvier 2009 à 12:24
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Par uspeak le 3 Janvier 2009 à 21:26
Le but ici, suivant votre niveau : c'est d'abord d'améliorer votre prononciation et ensuite d'élargir votre vocabulaire... Sans oublier le coté philosophique de ces citations, redécouvrez ces petites phrases pleines de bon sens et tellement vraies. Un exercice pourrait consister à commenter en Anglais ces citations.
Pour bien procéder, il est important d'écouter attentivement l'audio en suivant le texte des yeux, pour bien "entendre" la prononciation. Puis, une fois les difficultés bien repérées, répétez après audition.
NB : Pour les problèmes de compréhension sur un mot voici un dico en ligne : http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/
Et pour les traductions de phrases voici un traducteur en ligne : http://translation2.paralink.com/translations.asp
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