Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
anatole franceAre you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Remember me to one who lives there, He (she) once was a true love of mine.
Ich sage euch: man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einem tanzenden Stern geb a« ren zu k o« nnen. I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Alexander PopeUn fol enseigne bien un sage. A fool has a lot to teach a wise man.
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWhose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.
thomas campbellIl y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.
nicolas chamfortIl était passionné et se croyait sage; j'étais folle, mais je m'en doutais, et, sous ce point de vue, j'étais plus près que lui de la Sagesse.
nicolas chamfortQui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: "When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger."
anthony de melloQui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
françois de la rochefoucauldEn vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage.
françois de la rochefoucauldDeath never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
jean de la fontaineAll too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
Konrad LorenzUsez, n’abusez point; le sage ainsi l’ordonne. Je fuis également Épictète et Pétrone. L’abstinence ou l’excès ne fit jamais d’heureux.
voltaireLa superstition est à la religion ce que l’astrologie est à l’astronomie, la fille très folle d’une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre.
voltaireQui se croit sage, ô ciel! est un grand fou.
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!
LyttonHe thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
james beattie"When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly."
Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage, Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern.
The laurell, meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage; the firre that weepeth still; The willow, worne of forlorne paramours; The eugh, obedient to the bender's will; The birch, for shafts; the sallow for the mill; The mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound; The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; The fruitfull olive; and the platane round; The carver holme; the maple seldom inward sound.
Edmund SpenserHe is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyè.
jean de la bruyèreLet time that makes you homely, make you sage.
thomas parnell