Mellin de Saint-Gelais Quotes

Mellin de Saint-Gelais was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France. Wikipedia  

✵ 1495 – 14. October 1558
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Famous Mellin de Saint-Gelais Quotes

“A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start”

Original: Amitié qui se peut finir / Ne fut jamais bien commencée
Source: Oeuvres poétiques

“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

“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

“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

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