Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706 – 17 November 1781) was a French lawyer, poet, and playwright. Quotes Rien ne manque à sa gloire, il manquait à la nôtre. We add nothing to his fame, his adds to ours. Inscription for a bust of Molière commissioned by the Académie Française. Translated by Norbert Guterman, The Anchor Book of French Quotations (1990) p. 107 Classical and Foreign Quotations W. Francis H. King, ed. Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), nos. 1253, 2372, 2407, 2868 La loi permet souvent ce que défend l’honneur. Law oft allows what honour must forbid. Blanche et Guiscard (1763), 5, 6 (spoken by Blanche) Qu’une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille! How long the night that’s passed in wakeful grief! Blanche et Guiscard (Œuvres, Paris, 1783, 2 vols., 8vo), 5, 5 (spoken by Blanche) Rien ne manque à sa gloire, il manquait à la nôtre. Nothing is wanting to his fame, he was wanting to our own. Inscription written beneath the bust of Molière, when, in 1773, a hundred years after his death, it was placed in the Academy to which in his lifetime he was refused admission. La loi de l'univers, c'est malheur aux vaincus! Woe to the conquered is the law of the world! Spartacus (Œuvres, 2 vols., Paris, 1783), 3, 3 (Messala to Spartacus) Compare the exclamation of Brennus, as quoted by Livy, 5, 48, 9: Væ victis! ("Woe to the conquered!"). External links Category:Playwrights from France Category:Poets from France Category:Lawyers from France Category:1706 births Category:1781 deaths Category:Members of the Académie Française