Mellin de Saint-Gelais
Mellin de Saint-Gelais was a French writer of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.
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- It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted
- Original: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
- Source: Quatrains, LXXVIII
- No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high
- Original: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
- Source: Quatrains, LXXXIV
- A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start
- Original: Amitié qui se peut finir / Ne fut jamais bien commencée
- Source: Oeuvres poétiques
- So you must always remember / that time ends the beauty
- Original: Ainsi vous doit-il souvenir / Que le temps finit la beauté
- Source: Oeuvres poétiques