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