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Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

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Biography - Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain:

French philosopher and journalist.
Born: 1868 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

To love is to find one's riches outside oneself.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Aimer, c'est trouver sa richesse hors de soi.

German
Lieben heißt, seinen Reichtum außerhalb seiner selbst zu finden.




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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: wealth


Quotes

Quotes for: wealth


I am rich in the goods that I can do without.





Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.





The wise man is rich





Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.





If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.





A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.











Quotes

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain also said...


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.





Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.





The effort we make to be happy is never lost.





Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.





To know is to know that one knows.





It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.












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