On dit généralement que les Français sont plus sages qu'ils ne paraissent et que les Espagnols paraissent plus sages qu'ils ne sont ; mais quoi qu'il en soit de ces nations, il en est certainement ainsi des individus qui les composent.
It is generally said that the French are wiser than they appear and that the Spanish appear wiser than they are; but whatever may be the case with these nations, it is certainly so with the individuals who compose them.
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are ; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.