“All our life, our environment is our education, and an educator at once severe and dangerous.”

Original: Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. — The social environment continually teaches us, but its lessons may be demanding and potentially harmful. · Variété (French)

• Education
• Environment
• Society

“The spirit, a man of spirit once told me, is merely stupidity in motion; and genius is stupidity in a frenzy.”

Original: L'esprit, me disait un homme d'esprit, ce n'est que la bêtise en mouvement; et le génie, c'est la bêtise en fureur. — A deliberately paradoxical attack on the flattering distinctions people make about intelligence and genius. · Tel quel (French)

• Genius
• Intelligence
• Irony

“Politeness is organised indifference.”

Original: La politesse, c'est l'indifférence organisée. — A cool, paradoxical definition of courtesy as a social system for regulating personal involvement. · Marginalia Rhumbs (French)

• Behaviour
• Politeness
• Society