“L’homme croit souvent se conduire lorsqu’il est conduit : et peudant que par son esprit il tend a un but, son cœur l’entraine inseusiblement a un autre.”
“Man often believes he is following his own course., when he is in reality being led, and while his intelligence takes one direction his heart draws him insensibly in another.”
“L’homme dit ce qu’il salt, la femme dit ce qui plaît.”
“Man says what he knows, woman says what pleases.”
“L’homme est compose de matiére et d’esprit : l’animalité vient aboutir en lui, et l’ange commence a lui.”
“Man is composed of matter and spirit : animalism comes to an end in him, and the angel begins with him.”
“L’homme est le point fatal ou les deux infinis
Par la toute-puissance ont eté reunis.”
“Man is the fatal point wherein the might
Of God doth two infinities unite.”
“L’homme est ne libre, et partout il est dans les fers.”
“Man is bom free, yet everywhere he is in fetters.”
“L’homme est ne pour la society.”
“Man was born for society.”
“L’homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maitre,
Et nul ne se connait tant qu’il n’a pas souffert,”
“Man’s an apprentice, sorrow is his master,
And no one knows himself that hath not suffered.”
“L’homme intrepide et ferme en ses vastes desseins
Tient toujours, quand il veut, sa fortune en ses mains,
Et des evenements il salt se rendre maitre;
Le foible les attend; un grand cœur les fait naitre.”
“Who by his schemes unmoved and fearless stands,
Holds when he will his fortune in his hands;
He is the lord of all that haps on earth,
The weak awaits, the strong heart gives them birth.”
“L’homme n’ecrit rien sur le sable
A l’heure ou passe l’aquilon.”
“Man writeth nothing on the sand
What time the tempest passeth by.”
