Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Les sots sont ici-bas pour nos menus plaisirs.

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

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Topic

Fools

Speaker

Сléon

Author

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

Source

Le Méchant

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

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France Europe

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Citation

Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. Le Méchant [The Villain]. 15 Apr. 1747, Comédie-Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 1.

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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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Author

Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
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Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

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