“La terreur est une sentinelle qui manque un jour a sa poste.”
“Terror is a sentinel who one day deserts his post.”
“La terro es abelano 1
Mai, coume un aubre d’avelano,
En quau noun la tabasso a grand cop, douno ren.”
“Earth with her gifts is free!
Yet ever, like unto an almond tree,
Unless we beat her well, she nothing yields.”
“La tigresse qui voit enlever sa portee.
Est moins a redouter qu’une femme irritee,”
Tristan l’Hermite. Mariamne, Act II., Sc. V.—(Salome.)
“The tigress whose cubs have been reft from her side
Is less fearful by far than a woman defied.”
“La tranquillite regne a Varsovie.”
General Sebastiani. Chambre des D4put4s, 16 Septemhre, 1834.
“Tranquillity reigns in Warsaw.”
“La vaillance a ses limites, comme les autres vertus : lesquels franchis,
on se trouve dans le train du vice.”
“Bravery has its limits like other virtues : which if we overstep, we find
ourselves in the path of vice.”
“La valeur fait les grands héros : Fhumanite fait les bons princes.”
“Valour makes great heroes : humanity makes good princes.”
“La valeur n’apprend pas la fourbe en son école;
Tout homme de courage est homme de parole.”
“In bravery’s school nought of cheating is heard;
For all men of courage are men of their word.”
“La vengeance est boiteuse, elle vient a pas lents,
Mais elle vient.”
“Vengeance is lame, with halting steps she comes,
Yet comes she.”
“La verite
Est un joyau peu connu, tres-vante,
D’un fort grand prix, mais qui n’est point d’usage.”
“Truth I hold
A gem but little known, yet much extolled,
Of priceless value, but quite out of fashion.”
“La vérité sort mieux d’un tonneau que d’un puits.”
“Truth in a hogshead hides, not in a well.”
