Philosophe, essayiste et poète, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) est une figure de proue du transcendantalisme américain. D'une grande rigueur morale, ce maître à penser de sa génération s'efforcera, sa vie durant, d'appliquer les idées transcendantalistes à la vie politique et culturelle de son pays dans laquelle il est pleinement engagé car l'homme de lettres est aussi un homme public qui défendra notamment la cause du Nord pendant la guerre de Sécession.
1689 - 1755. Grand libéral, esprit rigoureux, Montesquieu - né Charles de Segondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu -, est l'auteur des Lettres Persanes, , des Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence (1734) et de De l'esprit des lois. (Académie française.)
Écrivain et philosophe, François-Marie Arouet — qui se rebaptisera lui-même plus tard "Voltaire" – est né à Paris le 22 novembre 1694. Il est mort le 30 mai 1778.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a store owner, postmaster, county surveyor, and lawyer, before sitting in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He was our 16th President, being elected twice, and serving until his assassination in 1865. He is best known for leading the United States through the Civil War, and his anti-slavery stance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one of the world’s best loved and widest read writers. His timeless fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot’s memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the #1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3 on National Geographic Adventure’s list of all-time-best exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of several bestselling biographies and historical works including, most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) was born into a noble family in the Chinese state of Lu. His father died when he was very young and the family fell into poverty. Confucius resigned from a political career and then travelled for many years, searching for a province willing to adopt his ideas. Unsuccessful, he returned to Lu where he spent the rest of his life teaching. He is considered one of the most influential figures in the world.
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Title : 3500 Final Quotes
EAN : 9782821179332
Publisher : Saga Egmont International
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