Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur. - Alain

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Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.

Alain

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mistakes thinking

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About Alain

Émile Auguste Chartier (3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), who wrote under the pseudonym Alain, was a notable French essayist, philosopher, journalist, pacifist and teacher, noted for his profound influence on his pupils, who included Raymond Aron, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Canguilhem, and André Maurois.

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Alternative Names: Émile Auguste Chartier • Emile Auguste Chartier • Émile Chartier

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Denis Diderot Voltaire Michel de Montaigne Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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nous n'avons aucune puissance sur les passions tant que nous n'en connaissons pas les vraies causes

We are advised and led along by second-rate moralists who only know how to work themselves into a delirium and pass their illness onto others.

Beaucoup de gens se plaignent de n'avoir pas ceci ou cela ; mais la cause en est toujours qu'ils ne l'ont point vraiment désiré.