“Plaisante justice, qu’une rivière ou une montagne borne! Verite en deçà des Pyrenees, erreur au dela.”
“What ludicrous justice, that is bounded by a river or a mountain. Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.”
“Plas me el cavalier Frances,
E la donna Catalana.
E l’ovrar Genoes,
E la danza Trevisana,
E lou cantar Provensales,
Las man e cara d’Angles,
E lou donzel de Toscana.”
“The bravest knight is the knight of France,
The Catalan is the noblest dame,
Treviso gives us the merriest dance,
In its industry lies Genoa’s fame,
Provence the fair is of song the land,
The Englishman owns the best-shaped hand,
Beauty’s crown doth the Tuscan damsel claim.”
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la méme chose,”
Alphonse Karr. Les Gu&pes. Janvier, 1849. (Ed. Michel lévy, Vol. VI., p. 304.)
“The more it changes the more it is the same thing.”
“(Et) plus en gré sont receu
Li biens dont Ten a mal eu.*’
“More happiness it brings to gain
Those blessings that have caused us pain.
“Plus en heur ne peut le conquerant régner, soit roy, soit prince, ou
philosophe, que faisant justice à vertus succéder.”
“No happier rule can be the lot of the conqueror, whether king or prince
or philosopher, than when he maketh justice follow upon virtue.”
“Plus fin que vous n’est pas bete.”
“A sharper than you is no fool.”
“Plus il est prie moins il est pitoyable.”
“The more he’s importuned the less he yields.”
“Plus je vis d’Btrangers, plus j’aimai ma patrie.”
De Belloy. Le Sidge de Calais, Act II., Sc. II.—(Harcourt.)
“The more I strangers see, the more I love my country.”
Voltaire in his letter to De Belloy, 31st March, 1765 quotes the line " Plus je
vis l’etranger," etc.
