Timide Quotes
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Qui timide rogat, docet negare. Who makes timid
requests, invites denial.
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Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses dégrés;Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocencePasser subitement à l'extrême licence.
jean racine— Crime, like virtue, has its degrees;And timid innocence was never knownTo blossom suddenly into extreme license.Hippolyte, act IV, scene II
Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.
— He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
— Seneca, Hippolytus, II. 593.
L'amour est la plus mélodieuse de toutes les harmonies, et nous en avons le sentiment inné.La femme est un délicieux instrument de plaisir, mais il faut en connaitre les frémissantes cordes, en étudier la pose, le clavier timide, le doigté changeant et capricieux.
honoré de balzac— Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined
