“Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l’amant, at dans les autres elles aiment ramoiir.”
“In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.”
—(Byron, Don Juan, III., 3.)
“Dans un petit convent, loin de toute pratique,
Je la fis elever selon ma politique;
C’est-a-dire, ordonnant quels soins on emplolroit
Pour la rendre idiote autant qu’il se pourroit.”
“In a small convent, far from haunts of man,
She was brought up according to my plan;
That is, I showed them what their course should be
To make her stupid to the last degree.”
“Dans un poete il y a, je crois, une jolie femme de la pire espéce.”
(Eve séchard.)
“In every poet there is, I think, hidden a pretty woman of the worst kind.”
“De cheval donné tousjours regardoit en la gueuUe.”
Rabelais, Gargantua, I., 11.
“He always looked a gift horse in the mouth.”
“De chiens, d’oyseaulx, d’armes, d’amours,
— Ghascun le dit à la vollee —
Pour ung plaisir mille doulours.”
“With hound and hawk, in love and fight,
— From lip to lip the dictum flies, —
A thousand griefs for each delight.”
“De conclure, par la sufifisance d’une vie particulière, quelque suffisance a l’usage public, c’est mal conclure ”
“To conclude, from capacity in a private station, a certain capacity for
public life, is to draw a wrong conclusion.”
“De jeune hermite viell diable.”
Rabelais, Pantagruel, IV., 64,
“A young monk makes an old devil.”
“(Pour les vaincre il nous faut) de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace, et la France est sauvee,”
Danton. Discours dans l’Assemblée Legislative, 2 Septembre, 1792.
“To overcome them we need audacity, and again audacity and always audacity, and France will be saved.”
“de l’homme qui doute a celui qui renie, il n’y a guére de distance.”
“From the man who doubts to the man who denies there is only a step.”
