Jacques Delille was a French poet, freemason and translator. He was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne and died in Paris. Wikipedia
“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.”
Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels.
L'Immortalité de l'Âme; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 825.
“I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.”
J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas
Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
“He sees only night, and hears only silence.”
Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
Imagination, IV; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. ___? (Silence).
