John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miscellaneous Translations. (continued) |
| 9701 |
| The style is the man himself. 1 |
| 9702 |
| “There is no other royal path which leads to geometry,” said Euclid to Ptolemy I. 2 |
| 9703 |
| There is nothing new except what is forgotten. 3 |
| 9704 |
| They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. 4 |
| 9705 |
| We are dancing on a volcano. 5 |
| 9706 |
| Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long. 6 |
| 9707 |
| God is on the side of the strongest battalions. 7 |
| 9708 |
| Terrible he rode alone, With his Yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade. |
| The Death Feud. An Arab War-song. 8 |
| Note 1. Buffon: Diacours de Reception (Recueil de l’Académie, 1753). See Burton, Quotation 6. [back] |
| Note 2. Proclus: Commentary on Euclid’s Elements, book ii. chap. iv. [back] |
| Note 3. Attributed to Mademoiselle Bertin, milliner to Marie Antoinette. ”There is nothing new except that which has become antiquated,”—motto of the “Revue Rétrospective.” [back] |
| Note 4. This saving is attributed to Talleyrand. In a letter of the Chevalier de Panat to Mallet du Pan, January, 1796, it occurs almost literally,—“No one is right; no one could forget anything, nor learn anything.” [back] |
| Note 5. Words uttered by Comte de Salvandy (1796–1856) at a fete given by the Duke of Orleans to the King of Naples, 1830. [back] |
| Note 6. Attributed to Luther, but more probably a saying of J. H. Voss (1751–1826), according to Redlich, “Die poetischen Beiträge zum Waudsbecker Bothen,” Hamburg, 1871, p. 67.—King: Classical and Foreign Quotations (1887). [back] |
| Note 7. See Gibbon, Quotation 6. Napoleon said, “Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.” [back] |
| Note 8. Anonymous translation from “Tait’s Magazine,” July, 1850. The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet. [back] |