James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
A. de Musset
L’homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître; / Et nul ne se connaît, tant qu’il n’a pas souffert—Man is an apprentice, pain is his master; and none knows himself so long as he has not suffered.
La prière est un cri d’espérance—Prayer is a cry of hope.
Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en guerre, / Et la femme qu’on aime aura toujours raison—Right is with the strongest in love as in war, / And the woman we love will always be right.
Les moissons, pour mûrir, ont besoin de rosée, / Pour vivre et pour sentir, l’homme a besoin des pleurs—Harvests to ripen have need of dew; man, to live and to feel, has need of tears.
Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have lived if you have loved.
Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.