Usage examples of "sages" in French with translation to English

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Les célébrités ne sont pas toujours sages. Great people are not always wise.
Heureux sont ceux qui se croient sages. Happy are those who think themselves wise.
Vous avez été sages d'accepter son offre. It was wise of you to accept his offer.
Les grands hommes ne sont pas toujours sages. Great men are not always wise.
L'expérience est la seule prophétie des hommes sages. Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
De leurs ennemis les sages apprennent bien des choses. From their enemies, wise men learn many things.
Ces hommes sont les gens les plus sages de la tribu. These men are the wisest people of the tribe.
Un idiot peut poser davantage de questions que dix sages ne peuvent y répondre. One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
Les femmes courent après les fous ; elles fuient les sages comme des animaux venimeux. Women chase crazy men; they flee from the wise ones as if they were poisonous beasts.
Les sages s'entretiennent des idées, les intellectuels des faits, et le commun des mortels, de ce qu'ils mangent. Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
Pour les gens ordinaires, la religion est vérité, pour les sages, elle est mensonge, pour les dirigeants, elle est utile. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
J'ai vu en mon temps cent artisans, cent laboureurs, plus sages et plus heureux que des recteurs de l'université. I have seen in my time a hundred craftsmen, a hundred farmers, wiser and happier than university rectors.
Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse. There are more fools than wise men, and even in wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Ce fut une sage décision. It was wise decision.
Il est suffisamment sage pour ne pas croire à une telle chose. He knows better than to believe such a thing.
Le taoïsme fut fondé sur les enseignements de Laotseu, un sage né en 604 avant J-C. dans la province actuelle du Henan. Taoism was founded on the teachings of Laozi, a sage born in 604 B.C. in present-day Henan Province.
Il est plus intelligent que sage. He is more clever than wise.
Ce n'est pas parce qu'il est bon qu'il est forcément sage. Because he is good, it does not follow that he is wise.
Tom est plus sage qu'intelligent. Tom is more wise than clever.
Elle est plus sage qu'intelligente. She is more wise than clever.
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