Jacques Delille

thumb|I love to dream, but do not wishTo have a pin prick rouse me. 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 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 (Virgil, Aeneid, bk. 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! — Virgil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. (Boston, MA: 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. — Virgil, Aeneid, John Dryden]. trans. (1697) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902) Edited by J. de Finod. New York: D. Appleton and Co. Modesty is the grace of the soul. p. 75 Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. p. 108 Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pasQu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille. I love to dream, but do not wishTo have a pin prick rouse me. La Conversation (pp. 815-16) Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels. Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. L'Immortalité de l'Âme (p. 825) Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence. He sees only night, and hears only silence. Imagination, IV (p. ___?) External links Category:Poets from France Category:1813 deaths Category:1738 births Category:Translators from France Category:Members of the Académie Française