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

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

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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Gaston Bachelard
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The Poetics of Space
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Time
1958 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

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Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.