Quote #1

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant: 'Ronsard me celebrait du temps que j'etais belle.'

More from Pierre de Ronsard

  1. Cueillez des aujourd'hui les roses de la vie.
  2. He who knows himself is his own master.
  3. Happy is he who does not desire a thing.
  4. Youth flies away and never comes back.
  5. Daytime, short as it may be, is better than night.
  6. Love and flowers do not last but one spring.
  7. Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
  8. He who does not love is miserable, and miserable is he who does.

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