“Il faut bonne memoire apres qu’on a menti.”
“Good memory one needs when one has lied.”
“Un menteur qui n’a pas de memoire
Se decele d’abord.”
“A liar, if his memory be at fault,
Betrays himself at once.”
“Qui ne sent point son mal est d’autant plus malade.”
“He’s the more sick that feeleth not his hurt.”
“(Mais) qui parle beaucoup dit beaucoup de sottises.”
—(Dorante.)
“He who talks much says many foolish things.”
“Qui petit mal pourchasse a son pooir,
Li grant ne puet en son cuer remanoir.”
Thibaut de Champagne. Chansons, 77.
“Who seeketh out small evils all he may,
The great ones never in his heart can stay.”
“Qui peut gouverner une femme, pent gouverner une nation.”
“He who can govern a woman can govern a nation.”
“Qui peut savoir combien toute douleur s’emousse,
Et combien sur la terre un jour d’herbe qui pousse
Efface de tombeaux?”
“How like to melting foam our sorrows pass!
How many graves are hidden by the grass
That groweth in a day!”
“Qui peut tout doit tout craindre,”
“Who is all-powerful should all things fear.”
“Qui peut tout ose tout.”
Thomas Corneille. Ariane, Act I., Sc. I.—(Aixas.)
“Whoso can all things do shall all things dare.”
“(Mais) qui peut vivre infame est indigne du jour.”
“Unworthy he of life who can dishonoured live.”
“Qui plume a, guerre a.”
“Who holds a pen is ever at war.”