“La où le vulgaire rit, le philosophe admire; et il rit ou le vulgaire ouvre de grands yeux stupides d’etonnement.”
“Where the mob laughs, the philosopher wonders; and he laughs where the mob gazes with wide-opened eyes in stupefied astonishment.”
“La paix est fille de la guerre.”
“Peace is the daughter of war.”
“La paix, quand on la veut, est encor la victoire.”
“Peace, when we wish for it, is victory still.”
“La parfaite valeur est de faire sans temoins ce qu’on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.”
“True worth lies in doing, without witnesses, what one would be capable
of doing before the whole world.”
“La parole a été donnée a l’homme pour expliquer ses pensées, et tout ainsi que les pensées sont les portraits des choses, de meme nos paroles sont-elles les portraits de nos pensées.”
“Speech was given to man to explain his thoughts, and as thoughts are
the portraits of things, so our words are the portraits of our
thoughts.”
“La parole des rois n’est plus qu’une ombre vaine.”
“The word of kings is but an empty shadow.”
“La parole est moitié a celuy qui parle, moitie a celuy qui l’escoute.”
“The spoken word belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.”
“Ia passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme; et rend souvent les plus sots habiles.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and as often makes the biggest fools clever.”
“La patrie est aux lieux où l’on a des amis.”
“Where we have friends, there is our fatherland.”
“La peine est au lieu qu’on habite
Et le bonheur où l’on n’est pas.”
De Parny. Poésies, Lettre IV. A M. de P du S .
“Sorrow is ever where we live
And happiness where we are not.”
