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

Poet Playwright Writer

From

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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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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Topic
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Source
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Medium
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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Topic
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Source
Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor
Medium
Essay
Genre
Political literature
Language
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 2
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Current Citation

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Another quote originally in French

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

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Topic
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Author

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Source
Wind, Sand and Stars
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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