Rise

הבא להורגך השכם להורגו

And the Torah stated a principle: If someone comes to kill you, rise and kill him first

Sanhedrin 72a, best known for being use in the title of Ronen Bergman 2018 book Rise and Kill First.

Travail et salaire

(…) l’ouvrier mérite son salaire.

Luc 10:7 (traduction Second 21)

(…) si quelqu’un ne veut pas travailler, qu’il ne mange pas non plus.

2 Thessaloniciens 3:10 (traduction Second 21)

S+KO (souffre et potasse)

Dicton cité dans : Stéphane Tison, « La mémoire brutionne. Identité et commémoration au Prytanée national militaire de La Flèche 1808-1968 », Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains 2001/1 (n° 201), p. 105-136. DOI 10.3917/gmcc.201.0105

Homme libre

Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer !

La mer est ton miroir ; tu contemples ton âme
Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame,
Et ton esprit n’est pas un gouffre moins amer.

Vous êtes tous les deux ténébreux et discrets :
Homme, nul n’a sondé le fond de tes abîmes ;
Ô mer, nul ne connaît tes richesses intimes,
Tant vous êtes jaloux de garder vos secrets !

Et cependant voilà des siècles innombrables
Que vous vous combattez sans pitié ni remord,
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
Ô lutteurs éternels, ô frères implacables !

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris, 1857

Tout le monde devrait savoir ça

Une mensualité à taux fixe et durée connue se calcule ainsi :

Mensualité = (C*t /12) / (1 – (1 + t /12)-n)

C est le capital emprunté, t le taux annuel en décimal, et n la durée totale en mois.

Mais ça, on ne l’apprend pas à l’école.

We were winning

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant…

(…)

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning…

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave…

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream