Rien n'est plus idiot à supporter

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Dümmer ist nichts zu ertragen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

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Dümmer ist nichts zu ertragen,
Als wenn Dumme sagen den Weisen,
Daß sie sich in großen Tagen
Sollten bescheidentlich erweisen.

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Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 6. Buch der Sprüche -- Hikmet Nameh [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Dümmer ist nichts zu ertragen", 1905, fragment [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Rien n'est plus idiot à supporter

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

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Rien n'est plus idiot à supporter
Que quand les sots disent aux sages
Que dans les grands jours
Ils devraient se montrer modestes.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 6. Buch der Sprüche -- Hikmet Nameh
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-11
Line count: 4
Word count: 23