Que votre âme et vos mœurs peintes dans vos ouvrages—Let your mind and manners be painted in your works. Fr.
Que vouliez-vous qu'il fit contre trois?—Qu'il mourut!—What would you have him do with three against him. I would have him die. Corn. (?)
Quel che fa il pazzo all' ultimo, lo fa il savio 40 alla prima—The wise man does that at first which the fool must do at last. It. Pr.
Quelqu'éclatante que soit une action, elle ne doit passer pour grande lorsqu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand dessein—An action should not be regarded as great, however brilliant it may be, if it is not the offspring of a great design. La Roche.
Quelque parti que je prenne je sais bien que je serai blâmé—Whatever side I take, I know well that I shall be blamed. Louis XIV.
Quelque soin que l'on prenne de couvrir ses passions par des apparences de piété et l'honneur, elles paraissent toujours au travers de ces voiles—Whatever care we take to conceal our passions by show of piety and honour, they always appear through these veils. La Roche.
Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands crimes—Small crimes always precede great ones. Racine.
Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit—Whom the gods love dies young, while his strength and senses and faculties are in their full vigour. Plaut.
Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius—Him whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates. Pr.
Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens—He 5 who repents of having sinned is almost innocent. Sen.