Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.

Il faut pleurer les hommes a leur naissance, et non pas a leur mort.

Montesquieu

Persian Letters

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Topic

Tragic view of life Birth and death The human condition

Author

Montesquieu

Source

Persian Letters

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

French

Time

1721 1720s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Montesquieu. Uzbek to Ibben. 20th of the moon of Rhegeb, 1713.

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Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.

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Jonathan Swift
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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 3, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 3, ch. 6.

Another quote about The human condition

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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The human condition Sermon on the Mount
Speaker
Jesus
Source
Gospel of Matthew The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 5:45).

Another quote originally in French

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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Patriarchy

Author

Simone de Beauvoir
Source
The Second Sex
Genre
Historical literature Feminist literature
Language
French
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.

Current Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.