« Samuel Johnson » : différence entre les versions

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|original=Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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|original=He puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.

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|original=Do not accustom yourself to view debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.|langue=en

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|original=As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man ''a good man'', upon easier terms that I was formerly.|langue=en

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