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They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic
L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
Universitas in modo citharae sit disposita, in qua diversa genera in modo chordarum sit consonantia. The universe is arranged like a cithera, in which different kinds of things sound together harmoniously, just as they do in a chord.
Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18 - , I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. This
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
What unites us is an unconditional love for France.
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Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
Agreeing to differ.
[Lat., Discors concordia.]
(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.)
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union ...
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)
University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.
The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'
(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!)
Something quite special has played out in the picturesque valleys and mountains, towns and villages of France over the past three weeks. For all who appreciate sport, it was a privilege and an inspiration to watch.
The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
You are the eternal France, I love you.
The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.]
Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]
Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them...
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?"
"Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you."
"Je t'adore aussi. Call me. Bye."
"Bye.
Plus je vois le homes, plus j'admire les chiens (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).
Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille - L'or du soleil)
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.
So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.
We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible)
L'chaim. Where there is life, my friends, there is hope.
My motto - sans limites.
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
Pride divides us way more than uni es us.
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.
Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And just as soon as Ratignolle appeared on the scene, then it WAS like a dog. 'Passez! Adieu! Allez vous-en!
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Par Odin, Thor et Tom Hiddleston !
Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
May my enemies tremble if they still have time! (Que mes ennemis soient tremblants - S'ils en ont encore le temps!)
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
We've got beauty, we've got class, the other team can kiss our ...
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
Pain is the University of Life
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.
for the French clergy,
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
Hous vivons aux temps des assassins - "we live in days of assassins" - where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.
The real University ... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues ... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
The universe is a great university.
The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did not seek to resolve their own personal revolutions, so now they act them out collectively.
The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.
Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for
self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.
University makes you knowledgeable;
the university of life makes you wise.
The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.
Le Marais?'
'It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay.
Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.)
Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath!
'Live long and prosper'.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
I will cover the walls with words. It will be la chambre des mots.
Saumensch, du dreckiges - it's about time!
Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.br>(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.)