Malheureux qui craint de rentrer
Dans la retraite de son âme!
Le coeur qui cherche a s'ignorer
Redoute un censeur qui le blâme.

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Translation: Unhappy he who fears the deep Recesses of his soul to scan! The heart that from itself would hide Fears an unfriendly critic's ban. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 154.

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