Bernard-Joseph Saurin
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Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706 – 17 November 1781) was a French lawyer, poet, and playwright.
Quotes
[edit]Classical and Foreign Quotations
[edit]- W. Francis H. King, ed. Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), nos. 1253, 2372, 2407, 2868
- La loi permet souvent ce que défend l’honneur.
- Law oft allows what honour must forbid.
- Blanche et Guiscard (1763), 5, 6 (spoken by Blanche)
- Law oft allows what honour must forbid.
- Qu’une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille!
- How long the night that’s passed wn wakeful grief!
- Blanche et Guiscard (Œuvres, Paris, 1783, 2 vols., 8vo), 5, 5 (spoken by Blanche)
- How long the night that’s passed wn wakeful grief!
- Rien ne manque à sa gloire, il manquait à la nôtre.
- Nothing is wanting to his fame, he was wanting to our own.
- Inscription written beneath the bust of Molière, when, in 1773, a hundred years after his death, it was placed in the Academy to which in his lifetime he was refused admission.
- Nothing is wanting to his fame, he was wanting to our own.
- La loi de l'univers, c'est malheur aux vaincus!
- Woe to the conquered is the law of the world!
- Spartacus (Œuvres, 2 vols., Paris, 1783), 3, 3 (Messala to Spartacus)
- Compare the exclamation of Brennus, as quoted by Livy, 5, 48, 9: Væ victis! ("Woe to the conquered!").
- Woe to the conquered is the law of the world!