Gens Quotes
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Il ne faut se permettre d'exce' s qu'avec les gens qu'on veut quitter biento" t. We should never permit ourselves to behave in excess except with those whom we will leave soon.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos— 1782 Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter10.
Hors de Paris, il n'y a point de salut pour les honne" tes gens. Outside of Paris, there is no salvation for gentlemen.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière— 1659 Les pre cieuses ridicules, sc.9.
Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s'avisa de dire: 'Ceci est a' moi'et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la socie te civile. The first person who fenced in a piece of land, ventured to say: 'This is mine,'and found others simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
— 1755 Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'ine galite parmi les hommes, ch.1.
Les gens qu'on honore ne sont que des fripons qui ont eu le bonheur de n'e" tre pas pris en flagrant de lit. Respected people are only rascals who have had the good fortune not to be caught in the act.
— 1830 Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.44.
La politique est l'art d'empe" cher les gens de se me" ler de ce qui les regarde. Politics istheart of preventing people fromtaking part in affairs which concern them.
Paul Vale ry— 1943 Tel Quel 2,'Rhumbs'.
J'aurois grande envie de voir ce palais souterrein, rempli d'objets intéressans pour les gens de notre espèce; il n'est rien que j'aime autant que les caverns; mon goût pour les cadavres & les momies est décidé.
william thomas beckford— I myself have a great desire to watch over thy conduct, and visit the subterranean palace, which, no doubt, contains whatever can interest persons like us. There is nothing so pleasing as retiring to caverns: my taste for dead bodies, and everything like mummy, is decided.
— P. 56; translation p. 34.
Les sots, les ignorans, les gens malhonnêtes, vont prendre dans les livres des idées, de la raison, des sentimens nobles et élevés, comme une femme riche va chez un marchand d'étoffes s'assortir pour son argent.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées, #572Foolish, ignorant and vicious persons go to books for their thoughts and judgments, and for all their elevated and noble sentiments, just as a rich woman goes with her money to a draper.Maxims and Considerations
Les vieillards, dans les capitales, sont plus corrompus que les jeunes gens.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées, #585In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.Maxims and Considerations
Car en mon cuer porte couvertementLe dueil qui soit qui plus me puet desplaire,Et si me fault, pour les gens faire taire,Rire en plorant et très amerementDe triste cuer chanter joyeusement.
— For what would I be otherwise but sport,In love with one who does not care for me?I will hide pain in smiles, sooner than beThe common talk. It is a bitter artTo sing a happy song with a sad heart.
— Rondeau "De triste cuer chanter joyeusement", line 8; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 154, as translated by by Sheenagh Pugh.
On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel manière que li preudome de cest siècle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siècle ne dient que on en face peu.
louis ix of france— Our clothing and our armour ought to be of such a kind that men of mature experience will not say that we have spent too much on them, nor younger men say we have spent too little.
— Page 171. [2]
Les gens que vous tuez se portent assez bien.
pierre corneille— The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.Cliton, act IV, scene iiCliton describing people whom a liar claims to have killed in duels.
Mais les fausses opinions ressemblent à la fausse monnaie qui est frappée d'abord par de grands coupables et dépensée ensuite par d'honnêtes gens qui perpétuent le crime sans savoir ce qu'ils font.
joseph de maistre— False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doingLes soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, Ch. I
Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
anatole france— People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Pt. II, ch. 4
On reproche aux gens de parler d’eux-mêmes. C’est pourtant le sujet qu’ils traitent le mieux.
anatole france— We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.Series I: À propos du journal des Goncourt [1]
Cils Jehan Balle avoit eut d'usage que, les jours dou diemence après messe, quant toutes les gens issoient hors dou moustier, il s'en venoit en l'aitre et là praiechoit et faissoit le peuple assambler autour de li, et leur dissoit: "Bonnes gens, les coses ne poent bien aler en Engletière ne iront jusques à tant que li bien iront tout de commun et que il ne sera ne villains ne gentils homs, que nous ne soions tout ouni."
jean froissart— This John Ball had the habit on Sundays after mass, when everyone was coming out of church, of going to the cloisters or the graveyard, assembling the people round him and preaching thus: "Good people, things cannot go right in England and never will, until goods are held in common and there are no more villeins and gentlefolk, but we are all one and the same."Book 2, p. 212.
Et scahiez que Anglois et Escoçoiz, quant ilz se treuvent en bataille ensamble, sont dures gens et de longue alainne, et point ne s'esparngnent, mais s'entendent de eulx mettre à oultranche, comment qu'il prende. Ilz ne ressamblent pas les Alemans qui font une empainte, et, quant ilz voient qu'ilz ne puellent rompre ne entrer en leurs ennemis, ilz s'en retournent tout à ung fais.
jean froissart— It should be repeated that the English and Scots, when they meet in battle, fight hard and show great staying-power. They do not spare themselves, but go on to the limits of endurance. They are not like the Germans, who make one attack and then, if they see that they cannot break into the enemy and beat him, all turn back in a body.Book 3, p. 345.
La plupart des gens ne jugent des hommes que par la vogue qu'ils ont, ou par leur fortune.
françois de la rochefoucauld— Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.Variant translation: Most people judge men only by their fashion or their fortune.Maxim 212.
On a fait une vertu de la modération pour borner l’ambition des grands hommes, et pour consoler les gens médiocres de leur peu de fortune, et de leur peu de mérite.
françois de la rochefoucauld— Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.Maxim 308.
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
françois de la rochefoucauld— We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.Maxim 347. Compare: "'That was excellently observed,' say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken." Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
françois de la rochefoucauld— There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.Maxim 386.
Peu de gens savent être vieux.
françois de la rochefoucauld— Few know how to be old.Maxim 423.
Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bpbus exercet suis, Solutus omni fænore.
— Happy he who far from business, like the primitive race of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
— Horace, Epodon, Book II. 1: Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), Lemma "Agriculture" p. 18-19.
Anglica gens est optima flens et pessima ridens.
— The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. (The English take their pleasures sadly).
— Thomas Hearne, Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (Ed. 1857), Volume I, p. 136. (Source referred to Chamberlayne, Anglicæ Notitia (1669). From old Latin saying quoted in Kornmannus, De Linea Amoris, Chapter II, p. 47. (Ed. 1610). Binder, Novus Thesaurus Adagiorum Latinorum. No. 2983. Neander's Ethic Vetus et Sapiens (1590). (With "sed" not "et," "Rustica" not "Anglica.").
Nec alia, ut arbitror, gens quam haec Kambrica, aliave lingua, in die districti examinis coram Judice supremo, quicquid de ampliori contingat, pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit.
— Whatever else may come to pass, I do not think that on the Day of Direst Judgement any race other than the Welsh, or any other language, will give answer to the Supreme Judge of all for this small corner of the earth.
— Gerald of Wales, quoting an unnamed Welshman, in Descriptio Cambriae (1194), Bk. 2, ch. 10; translation from Lewis Thorpe (trans.) The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978) p. 274.
Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.
— The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
— Juvenal, Satires, III. 86.
Que les gens d'esprit sont bêtes.
— What silly people wits are!
— Pierre de Beaumarchais, Barbier de Séville, I. 1.
Deux grands princes qui se voudroient bien entr'aymer, ne se devroient jamais voir, mais envoyer bonnes gens et sages les uns vers les autres, et ceux là les entretiendroient ou amenderoient les fautes.
— Two princes who wish to remain on friendly terms should never see each other but send good and wise men to one another, and these should maintain their friendship and amend any faults.
— Bk. I, ch. 14.
On se fâche souvent contre les gens de Lettres qui se retirent du monde. On veut qu'ils prennent intérêt à la Société dont ils ne tirent presque point d'avantage. On veut les forcer d'assister éternellement aux tirages d'une loterie où ils n'ont point de billet.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #447People are always annoyed by men of letters who retreat from the world; they expect them to continue to show interest in society even though they gain little benefit from it. They would like to force them be present when lots are being drawn in a lottery for which they have no tickets.Reflections
Audax omnia perpeti gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
— The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
— Horace, Carmina, I. 3. 25.
