Ceci n’est pas une sottise romantique mais le fait concret.
This is not some romantic nonsense but the actual fact.
Et quelle sottise, l'hymne national, comme à un défilé militaire.
And what folly, the national anthem, as a military parade.
Si vous décidez à tort alors que vous payez pour votre sottise.
Should you choose wrongly then you pay for your foolishness.
Il vient de représenter sa sottise à la fin de l'histoire.
It comes to represent his foolishness by the end of the story.
Sûrement l'aucune vraie science ou personne sérieuse n'a jamais cru une telle sottise.
Surely no real science or serious people ever believed such foolishness.
Aucun camarade révolutionnaire ne doit répéter cette sottise.
No revolutionary comrade should echo this nonsense.
Par cette action, son nom est devenu synonyme de sottise arrogante.
In doing so, he became a byword for arrogant folly.
Il a dit une sottise à ta réunion.
I heard he made a mistake in your meeting.
Laissez la sottise, et vivez, et marchez dans la voie de lunderstanding.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Ce n’est peut-être pas de l’arrogance, mais c’est très certainement une sottise.
It may not be arrogant, but it is certainly foolish.
Tu vois la sottise de laisser une séquence de rêves contrôler notre journée heureuse ensemble.
You see the foolishness of allowing a dream sequence to control our happy day together.
Ce serait une sottise impardonnable de fonder quoi que ce soit sur ces serments.
It would be an act of inexcusable stupidity to build anything upon these oaths.
Giusto, tu as dit une sottise.
Giusto, you made a silly mistake.
Je dois réparer ma sottise.
I want to make up for my blunder.
Quelle est cette sottise ?
What is this foolishness?
Vous venez de dire une grosse sottise.
That's the silliest thing you ever said.
Quand ils essayent de gagner des âmes, beaucoup de gens bronchent à cause de leur propre sottise.
Many people are stumbling in their own foolishness when they try to win souls.
Il n'a pas fait de sottise, au moins ?
Has he done something wrong?
Ne va surtout pas ternir la mémoire de ton frère en l'utilisant comme excuse pour ta sottise.
Don't you dare cheapen the memory of your brother by using him as an excuse for your foolishness.
Ma sottise, ça a été de trop croire à l'amour. Toi, forcément, tu n'y crois pas.
My mistake if it is one was perhaps believing in love too much.
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