“Les conquetes qui se font par la crainte des armes vont bien plus loin que celles qui se font par les arnaes memes.”
Hardouin de Perefixe, Histoire de Henri le Grand. (Ed. 1749, p. 484.)
"Conquests which result from the fear of arms are much more far-reaching than those which are the work of the arms themselves.”
“Les coups de l’épée se guérissent aisement, mais il n’en est pas de
meme de ceux de la langue, particulièrement par celles des rois.”
Cardinal Kichelibu. Testament Politique, Part I., Chap. VI.
“A wound inflicted by the sword is easily cured, but it is not so when the
weapon is a tongue, especially the tongue of a king.”
“(EUes doivent avoir) les defauts de leurs qualites.”
“They are bound to have the defects of their qualities.”
“Les dieux ne sont point faits comme les fait le vulgaire, et c’est leur
manquer de respect que de leur attribuer les faiblesses des
hommes.”
“The gods are not made as the vulgar herd would make them, and it is a
want of respect to attribute to them the weaknesses of humanity.”
“Les doctrines nouvelles veulent croitre dans le sang de leurs premiers
“New doctrines flourish only in the blood of their earliest apostles.”
“Toute idee est mortelle a ses premiers apotres.”
“All new ideas are fatal to their authors.”
“Les dons interesses sont importuns.”
“Interested gifts are troublesome things.”
“Les dos plats sont mal repus
Dans le pays des bossus." Hegesippe Moreau. Les Bossus.
“Scant welcome to straight backs they give
In the country where the hunchbacks live.”
“Les enfants flattent quelquefois les vieillards, mais ils ne les aiment
“Children sometimes flatter old people, but they never love them.”
“Les enfants n’ont jamais d’ennemi plus terrible,
Que l’imbécillite d’un pere trop flexible,”
“Children have ne’er an enemy more dire
Than the fond weakness of a yielding sire.”
“Les enfants terribles.”
Gavarni. Title of a series of sketches published in 1865.
“Those awful children!”
