It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Je vis de bonne soupe et non de beau langage.

Molière

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Topic

Food

Speaker

Chrysale

Author

Molière

Source

The Learned Ladies

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

French

Time

1672 1670s 17th century

Occupation

Playwright Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Moliere. Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies]. 11 Mar. 1672, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 7.

Current Citation

Moliere. "The Clever Women." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 2, sc. 7.

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

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Source
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Medium
Epigram
Language
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Time
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Original Citation

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 Food

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Bad breath Food
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Bottom

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedy (play)
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1599 1590s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act. 4, sc. 2.

Another quote originally in French

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

Henri Poincaré

The Value of Science

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Topic
Power of thought

Author

Henri Poincaré
Source
The Value of Science
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
French
Time
1905 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. Valeur de la Science [The Value of Science]. Flammarion, 1904, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Poincare, Henri. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House Publishing Group, 2001.