“Rien n’est plus dangereux qu’une idée quand on n’a qu’une idée.”“Nulla è più pericoloso di un’idea, quando è l’unica che abbiamo.”“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one we have.” “La bonne humeur a quelque chose de généreux : elle donne plutôt qu’elle ne reçoit.”“Il buon umore è qualcosa di generoso:… Read More Alain: idées et bonne humeur
George A. Moore (born on 24 February 1852- 1933) was an Irish poet and prose writer, art critic, and dramatist. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. 👈 The difficulty in life is the choice. The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. Un… Read More Self-Discovery Journey
Samuel Pepys (born on 23 February 1633) was a naval administrator, well known for his Diary which gives a fascinating picture of the upper-class life of Restoration London through the 1660s.He wrote his diary in shorthand, to ensure that no one could read it easily and he often further encoded the accounts of his many… Read More Pepys and Marriage
Henry Adams – born on 16 February 1838 – was a U.S. historian, journalist, novelist and educator. “No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about… Read More On Man and Chaos
Jimmy Durante (the youngest son of Italian immigrants from Salerno) was born on the Lower East Side of New York City on 10 February 1893. He was a pianist, actor, comedian, composer, and singer, remembered for hoarse voice and his oversized nose.For this feature he was nicknamed “The Schnozzola”, Italianization of the American Yiddish slang… Read More Jimmy Durante
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democrat who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945, was born on 30 January 1882 In the “State of the Union Address to the Congress”, a speech delivered in 1941, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people “everywhere in the world” should enjoy: “The first is… Read More The Four Freedoms
Aphorisms of Lord Acton, the great 19th-century historian (see here): 1 “Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.” 2 “Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.” 3 “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It… Read More Lord Acton on Liberty (2)
Cabu (Jean Cabut) – artiste et dessinateur français – né le 13 janvier 1938, tué le 7 janvier 2015 dans l’attentat contre Charlie Hebdo. 😊 “Il n’y a pas de limites à l’humour qui est au service de la liberté d’expression car, là où l’humour s’arrête, bien souvent, la place est laissée à la censure… Read More 🙂 Humour 🙃
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” (1)William James, American philosopher and psychologist, born on 11 January 1842 “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other… Read More When Two People Meet…
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton was an English historian, politician and writer commonly known as Lord Acton.He was born in Naples, Italy, on 10 January 1834.The birth certificate, written in Italian, described his father as Don Ferdinando Riccardo Acton, “Lord-in-Waiting to His Majesty Whom God preserve” and English Baronet, and his mother… Read More Lord Acton (1)
