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Honorat de Bueil de Racan Quotes

1580–1670 France

Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title; 5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the Académie française.

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It is never too soon nor too late
To taste of the pleasures of life.

The impatient longing in my soul doth grow
To know the evil that I fear to know.

What worth is life, when I am fortune's butt?
'Tis better, better far its course to stay,
And die once only, than die every day.

Nothing in this world lasts
But an eternal change.

Think not when autumn comes
To pluck the fruits of love.

Et vous, eaux qui dormez sur des lits de pavots,
Vous qui toujours suivez vous-mêmes fugitives...

Death prepares one gen'ral fate
For the lowly and the great,
Humble cot and palace tall.
Equal laws the Sisters make,
Kings' and peasants' threads they take,
And one weapon cuts them all.

As we rise higher, so less safe our lot;
No lofty pine is 'gainst the tempest proof,
And sooner the wind's rage o'erwhelms the roof
Of the king's palace, than the shepherd's cot.

Tircis, it's time to think of retiring:
Over half our journey is done.
Old age insensibly leads us toward death. ...
It's time to enjoy the delights of the port.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Honorat de Bueil de Racan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.