“On donne des conseils mais on ne donne pas la sagesse d’en profiter.”
“We may give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
“On en va mieux, quand on va doux.”
“He better goes who softly goes,”
“On entre en guerre, en entrant dans le monde.”
“We enter on war when we enter the world.”
“On entre, on crie,
Et c’est la vie;
On crie, on sort,
Et c’est la mort.”
Ausone de Chancel. Lines in a lady’s album, 1836.
“Crying, we enter on the strife,
And that is life;
Crying, we draw our latest breath,
And that is death.”
“On est dans le desert au milieu de la foule.”
“Man midst the crowd a wilderness shall find.”
“*’ On est ne pour de grandes choses, quand on à la force de se vaincre soi-même.”
“One is born for great things when one has the strength to master one-self.”
“On est, quand on le veut, le maitre de son sort.”
“Man, if he wills, is master of his fate.”
“On gagne assez dans les families quand on en expulse un mechant.”
“It is sufficient gain to a family when it expels a mischievous member.”
“On garde le parfum en effeuillant la rose ;
Il n’est si triste amour qui n’ait son souvenir.”
“The perfume lasts though all the rose leaves fallen be;
No love is so forlorn but hath its memory.”
“On n’a point pour la mort de dispense de Rome.”
“From death e’en Rome can give no dispensation.”