“Ne nous remets pas au gland quand nous avons du ble.”
“Do not send us back to acorns now that we have corn.”
“Ne soyez pas inexorable a ce fauteuil qui vous tend les bras il y un
quart d’heure.”
“Do not be inexorable to this chair which has been stretching out its arriis
to you for the last quarter of an hour.”
“Ne vouz fiez jamais aux gens qui regardent par un pertuys.”
“Never trust people who look through the key-hole.”
“Noblesse oblige.”
Due De Lévis. (SocUU de L’Histoire de France, Annuaire-Bulletin, G5, p. 57.)
“Noble birth has its obligations.”
“Nonporquant ou jouer ne ou rire ne ou solaciier ne gist mie toz li
maus; ne toz li biens ne regist mie ou plourer ne el simple
habit, anchois gist ou cuer de cascun.”
Henri de Valenciennes. Histoire de V Empereur Henri, I., § 502.
“Notwithstanding, ’tis not in sport nor in laughter nor in diversion that
lieth all evil; nor all good in mourning, nor in sad garments, but in
the heart of each man do they lie.”
“Nos biens sent en idee, en espoir, en desir:
Posseder ce qu’on veut, est la fin du plaisir.”
“All good on hope, idea, desire depends,
Possess we what we wish, and pleasure ends.”
“On veut avoir ce qu’on n’a pas,
Et ce qu’on a cesse de plaire.”
“Man ever longs for that which he has not;
What he possesses ceases soon to please.”
“Nos plus doux plaisirs
Sent dans nos souvenirs.”
“Our sweetest pleasiu-es
Are in our memories.”
“Nos pretres ne sent pas ce qu’un vain peuple pense;
Notre credulite fait toute leur science.”
“Our priests are not what foolish men surmise.
In our credulity their science lies.”
