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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon. - [Burlesque] A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. - [Bigotry] All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. - [Fools] It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet. - [Authorship] Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way. - [Nature] Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man. - [Man] Something of calumny always sticks. - [Calumny] The fear of one evil often leads us into a worse. - [Evil] Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident. - [Ancestry] When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. - [Envy] Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] - Epitre (V, 44) [Trouble] Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi: Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.] - Epitres (III, 47) [Time] Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.] - L'Art Poetique (I, 153) [Oratory] Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] - L'Art Poetique (I, 198) [Truth] A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.] - L'art Poetique (I, 232) [Folly] That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.] - L'Art Poetique (I, 61) [Speech] Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.] - L'Art Poetique (I, 64) [Evil] Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.] - L'Art Poetique (I, 75) [Poets] At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] - L'Art Poetique (III, 48) [Truth] A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.] - L'Art Poetique (IV, 50) [Advice] Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.] - L'art Poetique (l. 171) [Work] To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise, Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.] - Lutrin (chant I, 185) [Churches] A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] - Lutrin (I, 104) [Eating] Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] - Lutrin (I, 12) [Religion] I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.] - Satires (I, 51) [Names] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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