Popularity? It is glory's small change.

La popularite? C'est la gloire en gros sous.

Victor Hugo

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Topic

Popularity Glory Fame

Speaker

Don Salluste

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Ruy Blas

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Drama (play)

Language

French

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Ruy Blas. 8 Nov. 1838, Theatre de la Renaissance, Paris, France.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. "Ruy Blas." Victor Hugo: Four Plays, translated by William D. Howarth and John Golder. Methuen Drama, 2004.

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They have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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Topic
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Source
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Genre
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Language
French
Time
1835 1830s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 18, pt. 6.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 18, pt. 6.

Another quote originally in French

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Henri Poincaré

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Topic
Critical thinking Doubt and skepticism Credulity

Author

Henri Poincaré
Source
Science and Hypothesis
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
French
Time
1902 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. La science et l'hypothese [Science and Hypothesis]. Flammarion, 1902, introduction.

Current Citation

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