Ah, it's a lovely thing, to know a thing or two.

Ah, la belle chose que de savoir quelque chose.

Molière

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Topic

Knowledge

Speaker

Monsieur Jourdain

Author

Molière

Source

The Middle Class Gentleman

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1671 1670s 17th century

Occupation

Playwright Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Moliere. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [The Bourgeois Gentleman]. 14 Oct. 1670, The Court of Louis XIV, Château of Chambord, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Moliere. "The Bourgeois Gentleman." Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman. Dover Publications, 1998, act 2, sc. 4.

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The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.

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Source
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Medium
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Time
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Another quote about Knowledge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

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Knowledge Wisdom

Author

Alfred Tennyson
Source
Locksley Hall Poems
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1842 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 141.

Current Citation

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Another quote originally in French

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.

Simone Weil

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Topic
Nature of power

Author

Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.