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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Fools

Speaker

Сléon

Author

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

Source

Le Méchant

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

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Time
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Original Citation

Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 8 July 1741, Edwards Church, Northampton, MA, USA. Sermon.

Current Citation

Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening. Library of America, 2013.

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To err is human, to forgive divine.

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Medium
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Time
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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, l. 526.

Current Citation

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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again-these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ernest Renan

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Ernest Renan
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What is a Nation?
Medium
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Time
1882 1880s 19th century
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Renan, Ernest. "Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? [What is a Nation?]" 11 Mar. 1882, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France, pt. 3.

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