“Nul n’est mauvais gratuitement.”
“No man is gratuitously wicked.”
“Nul n’est plus porte a abuser de sou droit que celui qui vient a peine de le conquerir, il n’y a pas de pires tyrans que les esclaves, ni d’hommes plus superbes que les parvenus.”
“No one is more prone to make an ill use of his rights than he who has but just secured them; there are no worse tyrants than slaves, none more arrogant than upstarts.”
“Nul vent fait pour celuy qui n’a pas de port destine.”
“No breeze is favourable to one who has no destined port.”
“Nus n’em puet avoir grant joie
S’il n’en sueffre paine.”
PiERES DE Corbie. Pastourelle. [Theatre Frangais au Moyen Age.
Ed. Desrez, 1839, p. 41.)
“Never great gladness man can know
Unless through sorrow he attain it.”
“Nus ne puet trop achater
Lis biens qu’ Amours set doner.”
Thibaut de Champagne. Chansons. (Ed. Beims, 1851, p. 13.)
“None can pay too high a price
For all the blessings Love doth give.”
“Ny trop haut, ny trop bas, c’est le souverain style.”
RoNSAED. Sonnets Divers. A Jean d’ Aurat. (Vol. V., p. Z^9.)
“Nor too high, nor too low, ’tis the sovereign style.”
“fralcheur de sentir qu’on n’a pas de jaloux I
bonte d’être cru plus malheureux que tons!”
Paul Verlaine. Amour. A M. Edmond Lepelletier, 1875.
“How refreshing to feel that none envy our state!
How good to be thought chosen martyrs of fate!”
“le bon temps que ce siécle de fer!”
“Oh! what a good time is this iron age!”
Liberté! Liberte! que de crimes on commet en ton nom I ”
Mme. Roland. (Lamartine, Histoire des Girondins, Livre LI., Chap. VIII.)
“Liberty! Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!”
