We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous épargner.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Acquiring wisdom Wisdom

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower]. Paris: Gallimard, 1919.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, translated and edited by James Grieve. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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Dulce et Decorum Est
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Language
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1918 1910s 20th century
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Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

Another quote about Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Knowledge Wisdom

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Alfred Tennyson
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Locksley Hall Poems
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1842 1840s 19th century
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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 141.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 141.

Another quote from 1919

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

The Russian Revolution

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Minority rights Freedom

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Rosa Luxemburg
Source
The Russian Revolution
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
German
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Russian Revolution." The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? Trans. Bertram Wolfe. University of Michigan Press, 1961, ch. 6. Originally, Die russische Revolution [The Russian Revolution]. Paul Levi, 1922, ch. 6.

Another quote originally in French

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Contradictory nature of man Nature of man

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Michel de Montaigne
Source
That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End Essays
Medium
Essay
Language
French
Time
1580 1580s 16th century
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Original Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "Par Divers Moyens On Arrive a Pareille Fin [That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.