On revient toujours à ses premiers amours—We always come back to our first loves. Etienne.
On se heurte toujours où l'on a mal—One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. Fr. Pr.
On se persuade mieux pour l'ordinaire par les raisons qu'on a trouvées soi-même, que par celles qui sont venues dans l'esprit des autres—We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. Pascal.
On some men's bread butter will not stick. Pr. 5
On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine—People speculate on everything, even on famine. Armand Charlemagne.
On termine de longs procès / Par un peu de guerre civile—We end protracted law-suits by a little civil war.
On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. Carlyle.
On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying. Emerson.
On the day of the resurrection, those who 10 have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Mahomet.
On the field of foughten battle still, / Woe knows no limits save the victor's will. The Gaulliad.