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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan Quotes

French poet

(sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title; 5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the .

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Alternative Names: Seigneur de Racan • Honorat de Bueil de Racan

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Similar: Robert Browning 49.6% Lord Byron 48.3% John Dryden 48.3% John Conington 47.5% Omar Khayyám 47.2% Emily Dickinson 47.0% Algernon Charles Swinburne 46.9% William Shakespeare 46.7% Alfred Tennyson 46.7% Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 46.6%
What worth is life, when I am fortune's butt?
'Tis better, better far its course to stay,
And die once only, than die every day.

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A quoy me sert la vie en butte à la fortune?
II vaut mieux, il vaut mieux en arrester le cours,
Et mourir une fois que mourir tons les jours.

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