1665

Explore 7 quotes from the year 1665

He who lives without tobacco is not worthy to live.

Molière

Don Juan

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Topic

Cigarettes Smoking

Speaker

Sganarelle

Author

Molière

Source

Don Juan

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Moliere. Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre [Don Juan or The Feast of Stone]. 15 Feb. 1665, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Moliere. "Don Juan." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 1, sc. 1.

Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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Topic

Love and friendship Love Friendship

Author

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Source

Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour.

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

John Bunyan

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Topic

Effective communication Communication

Author

John Bunyan

Source

The Epistle to Four Sorts of Readers The Holy City

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bunyan, John. "The Epistle to Four Sorts of Readers." The Holy City. London, 1665.

Current Citation

Bunyan, John. "The Holy City." The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, edited by J. Sears McGee. Vol. 3, Clarendon Press, 1987.

For all the happiness Mankind can gain
Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

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Topic

Happiness Pleasure and pain Pleasure Pain

Speaker

Cortez

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Indian Emperor

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. King's Company, 1665, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "The Indian Emperor." The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 9. University of California Press, 1967, act 4, sc. 1.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

Read The Diary of Samuel Pepys at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Food

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Nov. 1665.

Current Citation

Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 9 Nov. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Source

Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour.

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

Strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

Read The Diary of Samuel Pepys at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Misery loves company Marriage

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 25 Dec. 1665.

Current Citation

Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 25 Dec. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.