Bernard Joseph Saurin
Bernard Joseph Saurin
pain night long
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
death long dying
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
soul common valor
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
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.
sacred
Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
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.