“En revolution, le peuple tue les hommes, la posterite les juge.”
DuPORT-DuTERTRE. (Lamartine, Histoire cles Girondins, Livre LIL, Chap. IX.)
“In revolutionary times the people kills men, but posterity tries them.”
“En pechant centre l’amour nous pechons centre neus.”
“When against love we sin, we sin against ourselves.”
“En tout état de cause, il vaut mieux eommettre une faute que de contracter un vice.”
“Whatever the state of the case, it is better to be guilty of a fault than to contract a vice.”
“En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.”
“In all things we must consider the end.”
En toutes compaignies il y a plus de folz que de saiges.”
“In every company there are more fools than
wise men.”
“C’est une nation d’une telle etendue
Que de quelque cote que l’on tourne la vue,
II s’en presente aux yeux, et qui n’en veut pas voir
Doit les tenir fernies, ou casser sen miroir.”
Claude le Petit. Satires, III.
“So widely spread this nation nowadays,
That whatsoever side we turn our gaze
They meet the eye. Who ne’er would see an ass
Must shut his eyes, or break his looking-glass.”
“Les sots depuis Adam sont en majorite.”
“Since Adam’s days men have been mostly fools.”
“En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage.”
“As we grow older we become wiser and more foolish.”
“Encore est-ce un confort à l’homme malheureux
D’avoir un cempagnon au malheur qui l’affole.”
“Some consolation shall th’ unhappy take,
If in misfortune they companions find.”
“Goûtons l’unique bien des cœurs infortunes:
Ne seyons pas les seuls miserables.”
QuiNAULT. Thésie, Act III., Sc. VII.—(Chorus of demons.)
“Taste we the only joy of suffering souls,
Let us not be alone in misery.”
