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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Fais ènergiquement ta longue et lourde tâche...<br />

Puis, aprés, comme moi, souffre et meurs sans parler.<br />

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness...<br />

Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task...<br />

<strong>The</strong>n as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.<br />

‘La mort du loup’ (1838)<br />

10.23 Philippe-Auguste Villiers De L’Isle-Adam 1838-89<br />

Vivre? les serviteurs feront cela pour nous.<br />

Living? <strong>The</strong> servants will do that for us.<br />

‘Axël’ (1890) 4, sect. 2<br />

10.24 François Villon b. 1431<br />

Fréres humains qui aprés nous vivez,<br />

N’ayez les cuers contre nous endurcis,<br />

Car, se pitiè de nous povres avez,<br />

Dieu en aura plus tost de vous mercis...<br />

Mais priez Dieu que tous nous veuille absouldre!<br />

Brothers in humanity who live after us, let not your hearts be hardened against us, for, if you<br />

take pity on us poor ones, God will be more likely to have mercy on you. But pray God that he<br />

may be willing to absolve us all.<br />

‘Ballade des pendus’<br />

Mais oû sont les neiges d’antan?<br />

But where are the snows <strong>of</strong> yesteryear?<br />

‘Ballade des dames du temps jadis’ from ‘Le Grand Testament’ (1461) (translation by D. G. Rossetti)<br />

En ceste foy je veuil vivre et mourir.<br />

In this faith I wish to live and to die.<br />

‘Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame’ from ‘Le Grand Testament’ (1461)<br />

10.25 St Vincent Of Lerins d. c.450<br />

Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum est.<br />

What is always, what is everywhere, what is by all people believed.<br />

‘Commonitorium’ 2<br />

10.26 Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro) 70-19 B.C.<br />

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris<br />

Italiam fato pr<strong>of</strong>ugus Laviniaque venit<br />

Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto<br />

Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

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