Bernard Joseph Saurin
Bernard Joseph Saurin
law honor permit
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
soul common valor
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
should dare
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
time unhappy hours
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
death long dying
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
sacred
Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
blow vices strikes
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
pain night long
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.