The law often permits what honor prohibits.
Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
The law often allows what honor forbids.
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
Bernard-Joseph Saurin was a lawyer, poet, and playwright.
