“Il sert encore un dieu qu’il n’ose plus nommer.”
“He worships still a god he dares no longer name.”
“Il suit toujours le grand chemin, le grand chemin, et ne va pas chercher midi a quatorze heures; et pour tout Tor du monde il ne voudroit pas avoir gueri une personne avec d’autres remèdes que ceux que la Faculte permet.”
“He always follows the beaten track, the beaten track, and never goes out of his way to look for noon at fourteen o’clock; not for all the gold in the world would he have it said that he had cured a patient by the use of remedies other than those permitted by the Faculty.”
“Il "vaut mieux employer notre esprit a supporter les inf ortunes qui
arrivent, qu’a prevoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.”
“Our intelligence is better employed in bearing the misfortunes which
have come upon us than in foreseeing those which may befall us in
the future.”
“H vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner ud
“It is better to run the risk of saving a guilty man, than of condemning an innocent one.”
“Il vaut mieux subsister par ses propres forces que par les faiblesaes d’autrui.”
“It is better to live by our own strength than by the weaknesses of others.”
“Il voulait aller à la gloire par tous les chemins et au meilleur marché possible.”
“He wished to attain to fame by every road and as cheaply as possible.”
“lis vous opposeront de vastes solitudes,
Des deserts que le ciel refuse d’eclairer,
Oi!i la nature semble elle-nieme expirer.”
“They’ll to your march vast solitudes oppose,
Deserts to which the heavens refuse their fire,
Where even nature seenieth to expire.”
“Il y a beaucoup moins d’ingrats qu’on ne croit; car il y a bien moins de généreux qu’on ne pense.”
“There is much less ingratitude than we think, for there is far less generosity than we imagine.”
“There is indeed a right of the wisest, but there is no right of the strongest.”
