Ce que c’est que de nous! = What poor mortals we are!
*Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée = A good name is better than riches; He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living.
[Ceinture here refers to the purse which was in, or attached to, the girdle. Compare Proverbs xxii. 1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,” and “The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
Shakespeare, Richard II. i. 1.]
Cela
C’est parler cela = That is what I call talking.
C’est ceci, c’est cela = It is sometimes one thing, sometimes another.
Pour ça, non! = Not a bit of it; Certainly not.
Il est comme cela = That is his way.