I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
“Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.”
“Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.”