“La plus belle couronne d’un vieillard ce sont ses cheveux blancs, et le souvenir d’une vie honorable.”
“An old man’s fairest crown is his white hair, and the memory of an honourable life.”
“La plus belle fille ne donne que ce qu’elle a, et l’ami le plus devoue se tait bur ce qu’il ignore.”
“The most beautiful woman can only give what she has, and the most devoted friend must keep silent when he does not know.”
“La plus grande chose du monde c’est de S9avoir estre a soy.”
“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.”
“La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l’on n’a pas ri.”
“The most wasted of all days is the day when we have not laughed.”
“(Car, disoit Gargantua) la plus vraie perte du temps qu’il sceust estoit de compter les heures.”
“The greatest waste of time that he knew, said Gargantua, was counting the hours.”
“La poesie ne consiste pas à tout dire, mais a tout faire rever.”
Sainte-Beuve. Causeries du Lundi.—" BaphasV
“Poetry does not consist in complete expression, but in infinite suggestion.”
“La possession d’un cœur est fort mal assure lorsqu’on pretend le retenir par force.”
“The possession of a heart is very ill secured when we pretend to retain it by force.”
“La première de toutes les langues est celle qui possede le plus d’excellents ouvrages.”
“The first of all languages is that which possesses the greatest number of excellent works.”
“La première moitie de sa vie se passe à désirer la seconde, la seconde a regretter la première.”
Alphonse Kabb. Les GuSpes, Juillet, 1840. (Ed. Michel Levy, Vol. I., p. 297.)
“The first half of our life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.”
