Jacques Delille

Jacques Delille (June 22, 1738 – May 1, 1813) was a French poet and translator.

Quotes

 * Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
 * Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
 * Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.


 * J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
 * I love to dream, but do not wish To have a pin prick rouse me.
 * La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.


 * Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels.
 * Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
 * L'Immortalité de l'Âme; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 825.


 * Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
 * He sees only night, and hears only silence.
 * Imagination, IV; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. ___? (Silence).


 * Ici nous ignorons dans quel climat nous sommes ; ici nous ignorons et les lieux et les hommes : des honneurs solennels vous paîront vos bienfaits.
 * tr. of Ignari hominumque locorumque erramus, vento huc vastis et fluctibus acti: multa tibi ante aras nostra cadet hostia dextra. — L'Énéide, livre premier (Virgil A. 1.325)"
 * Instruct us of what skies, or what world's end, our storm-swept lives have found! Strange are these lands and people where we rove, compelled by wind and wave. Lo, this right hand shall many a victim on thine altar slay! — Vergil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910.
 * But tell a stranger, long in tempests toss'd, what earth we tread, and who commands the coast? Then on your name shall wretched mortals call, and offer'd victims at your altars fall. — Vergil, Aeneid. John Dryden. trans.