“Les erreurs du cœur sont bien plus dangereuses que les extravagances de l’imagination.”
"The errors of the heart are far more dangerous than the extravagances of the imagination.”
“Les esprits mediocres condamnent d’ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur
portee.”
“Commonplace minds generally condemn whatever is beyond the reach of
their understanding,”
“Les extremites se touchent.”
“Extremes meet.”
“Les sciences ont deux extremites qui se touchent.”
“Sciences have two extremities which meet.”
“Une gravite trop etudiée devient comique; ce sont comme
des extremites qui se touchent, et dont le milieu est
dignite.”
“A too studied gravity becomes comic; it is like two extremities which meet, and which have dignity for their intermediate point.”
“Les extremes se touchent.”
L. S. Mercier. Le Tableau de Paris, IV., 348.
“Extremes meet.”
“Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière-pensée.”
“No woman e’er did all her thought disclose.”
“Les femmes sont extremes; elles sont meilleures ou pires que les
“Women are extreme; they are better or worse than men.”
“Les fous sont, aux echecs, les plus proches des rois.”
“’Tis the fool that, at chess, is placed next to the king.”
“Les gens qui ne veulent rien faire de rien, n’avancent rien, et ne sont bons a rien.”
“People who will not do anything with anything, do not promote anything and are not good for anything.”
