Les faux amis en français
Un guide sur les faux amis en français, leur origine, les erreurs courantes, et comment les éviter. Ce texte comprend des exemples, des stratégies pour repérer les faux amis, et des exercices pratiques.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.- Jean-Paul Sartre
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.- Voltaire
Imagination governs the world.- Napoleon Bonaparte
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.- Simone de Beauvoir
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.- Claude Debussy
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.- Gustave Flaubert
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, equality, fraternity.- French revolution motto
Men argue. Nature acts.- Voltaire
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.- Victor Hugo
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.- Victor Hugo
To love reading is to exchange hours of boredom for delightful hours.- Montesquieu
I think, therefore I am.- René Descartes
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.- Blaise Pascal
The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion.- Blaise Pascal
History is an echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.- Victor Hugo
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.- Victor Hugo
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.- André Gide