Quotes by Pierre de Ronsard

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Alas, time does not pass, we pass.

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Let's drink! How drunk we will be, let's fall! Believe me, it is better to lie down drunk in bed, than for the grave to swallow you awake.

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The time of the golden age has not yet passed: Unwillingly, at present, in the breast of man, The sight of gold produces disturbance.

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Unhappy is the ruler around whom there is a flatterer.

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When it comes to love, neither the mind, nor the heart, nor the soul Make two frozen onions.

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But no one is able, of whatever kind, To change his nature by himself, at the command, To live someone else's life, to play someone else's role.

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That's how love is and that's how the world is made: He who deserves happiness is not lucky, And nothing is denied to a fool.

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In the face of female beauty, we all become powerless. She is above gods, men, fire and metals.

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Let him crack, if he would crack barefoot and naked, He who the gold discovered, Because of his fault, nothing is holy anymore. Because of his fault, even the mother is not a mother, And the son can shoot his father, and the brother throws himself, in war, at the brother.

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To fight the mind with love - it makes no sense. To reconcile with a god, only the god is able.

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It's not worth getting lost in dreams of an ideal life in the world where, like smoke, everything is fleeting and changing, Everything is deceptive like the wind and like the wave!

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For him who has no wealth, little chance of advancement, But it is even worse for him who is rich but without honor!

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May there be any other creature in the world, What seeks to destroy those of the same race? For only man, when he has the opportunity, With pleasure harms those like himself.

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Truly he loved who never turned from the way, And happy was he, having only one love.

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Only the faithfulness of friends is a true treasure, It is more valuable than all the riches of the world.

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But what about death? Is there any evil, As it seems to us? Or maybe dying, In the bitter hour, he being the last, Just like in the first hour, it won't be hard for us at all?

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Ah, if we could bribe her dying, With gold, - to stay as far away from us as possible, It would certainly make sense to devote your life to Enrichment.

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Matter is deathless, only forms disappear. God's world is a theater. Its entrance is free, its Dome is of the vaulted sky.

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He is happy, he is equally happy who knows the measure, Who wisely follows the good example And trusts in himself, regardless of the times.

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Greatness of soul, law, and righteous judgment - All virtues - live deep in the forest, And rarely are they given the luxurious purple mantle.

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The world is a theater, and we - unwilling actors, Almighty Fate casts, And Heaven watches how we play!

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The crowd hurled insults at him, But the singer, after death, becomes like a god.

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Friends, let's cheat death and drink to love. Maybe tomorrow we won't see each other, Today we are alive, but tomorrow - who knows!

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Worldly happiness is so deceptive! And tomorrow he will turn himself into dust Who kept waiting for the king to look down on him And flattered himself in front of him.

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And in flesh, and in blood, and in blood, and in bones, From birth we carry in us the wretched passion.

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If someone doesn't move at the sound of a soft chord of an instrument or the sweet sound of a vocal voice, doesn't resonate with it and doesn't move with a truly self-absorbed rapture: this is evidence of a feeble and wretched soul.

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So live, believe me, and don't wait for tomorrow: youth is a rose, enjoy it while it blooms!