“Celuy meurt tous les jours qui languit en vivant.”
"He dieth every day who languisheth in living.”
“Celuy qui révèle son secret à un ami indiscret, est plus indiscret que l’indiscret mesme.”
"He who reveals his secret to an indiscreet friend, is more indiscreet than the indiscreet one.”
“(Qui se mêlent aux cris perçants
Des) cent voix de la Renommée.”
"The hundred voices of Renown
Mingle therewith their piercing cries.”
“Cependant il vaut mieux sucrer nostre moutarde;
L’homme pour un caprice est sot qui se hazarde.”
"Our mustard should be sugared; ape not him
Who runs a risk to gratify a whim.”
“Certaine maladie qu’ilz nommoient faulte d’argent.”
"A certain complaint known as lack of money.”
“Ces malheureux rois,
Dont on dit tant de mal, ont du bon quelquefois.”
"These wretched kings,
Of whom all men speak ill, have oft some good in them.”
“Ces rois nés valets de leurs propres ministres.”
"These kings born serving-men to their own ministers.”
“Ces vains mausolées
Par qui, malgré l’injure et des temps et du sort,
La vanité des grands triomphe de la mort.”
"By these vain monuments,
In spite of Fate and Time’s destroying breath,
The great man’s vanity doth conquer death.”
“Cet âge est sans pitié.”
"This age is pitiless.”
“Cette défiance
Est toujours d’un grand cœur la dernière science :
On le trompe longtemps.”
"This mistrust
Is the last lesson learnt by noble souls:
Long time may men deceive them.”
