Translation: A little wit and plenty of authority, that is … - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

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Translation: A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world.

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654) was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of Académie française.

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Translation: There are no children of whom we are fonder than those that are born of our brains, to whom we are father and mother in one.

Le venin guerit en quelque rencontre, et, ce cas-là, le venin n'est pas mauvais.

Translation: God is the poet, men are only the actors.

Translation: A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world. - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

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