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