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Biography - Arthur Rimbaud:

French poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Je vis que tous les êtres ont une fatalité de bonheur : l'action n'est pas la vie, mais une façon de gâcher quelque force, un énervement. La morale est la faiblesse de la cervelle.
Arthur Rimbaud



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Quotes for: life


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Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy - 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées - 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata - 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi - 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson - 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau - 






All about life...




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet - 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata - 





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu - 





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus - 





Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham - 





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza - 






All about happiness...




Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus - 





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel - 





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - 





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt - 





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals - 





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson - 






All about action...




Quotes for: morality


Quotes

Quotes for: morality


We have need of morality only for want of love.
André Comte-Sponville - 





Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées - 





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées - 





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason - 





It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain - 






All morality quotes...




Quotes for: weakness


Quotes

Quotes about weakness:


No man is weak by choice.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims - 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées - 





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud - 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées - 





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno - 





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  - 






All about weakness...




Quotes

Arthur Rimbaud also said...


It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité - 





I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud - 





Today I know how to salute beauty.
Arthur Rimbaud - Une saison en enfer - 





I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
Arthur Rimbaud - 





I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur Rimbaud - 





Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud







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