“Si la mode empoisonne un natural heureux,
A quoi sert le bonheur d’être ne vertueux.”
NivELLE DE LA Chaussee. Le Pr4jug4 d la Mode, Act II., Sc. V. (Damon.)
“Fine natures, from their course by fashion torn,
Gain nothing in that they were virtuous bom.”
Si la raison nous luit, qu’avons-nous à nous plaindre?
Nous n’avons qu’un flambeau, gardons-nous de l’eteindre.”
{{d|Voltaire. Sur la Loi Naturelle, IL
“If reason light us, why bemoan our lot?
’Tis our one torch, see that it fail us not.”
“Si la vie est un passage,
Sur ce passage au moins semons des fleurs.”
Quoted by Coste in a footnote to Montaigne, Essais, III., 13, (P. 380.)
“If life is but a passage,
Let us at least strew flowers thereon.”
Si les triangles faisoient un dieu, ils lui donneraient trois cotés.”
“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
“C’est que I’homme, amoureux de son sot esclavage.
Fit dans ses prejugés Dieu méme a son image.”
{{d|Voltaire. Sur la Loi Naturelle, HI.
“Enamoured of his slavery, man purblind
Doth fashion God in th’ image of his kind.”
“Ce n’est point Dieu qui a fait l’homme a son image, c’est
I’homme qui a figure Dieu sur la sienne.”
VoLNEY. Les Ruines, Chap. XLI.
“It is not God who has made man after His image, it is man who
has imaged God after his own.”
“(Et) si m’estonne fort pourquoy
La mort osa penser a moy
“Astounding ’tis to see
That death should think of me,
That never dreamt of death.”
“(Et) si me fault, pour les gens faire taire,
Rire en plorant et trés amérement
De triste cuer chanter joyeusement.”
Christine de Pisan. Rondeaux, XIé
“So must I, people’s tongues to still,
Laugh loud while bitter tears I shed.
And sing glad songs with heart of lead.”
Sometimes attributed to the Regent, Philippe d’Orléans.
