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John Wilmot, deuxième comte de Rochester est un poète, dramaturge et libertin anglais. Ami proche du roi Charles II d'Angleterre, il est l'auteur de nombreuses satires, de poèmes soit lyriques soit philosophiques et de quelques pièces licencieuses. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. avril 1647 – 26. juillet 1680
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John Wilmot: Citations en anglais

“Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whose word no man relies on;
He never says a foolish thing,
Nor ever does a wise one.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II, as quoted in The Book of Days : A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities (1832) by Robert Chambers, Viol. II, July 26, p. 126.

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow

“We have a pretty witty king,
Whose word no man relies on;
He never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

About King Charles II of England, as quoted in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol. XLIV (January - June 1857) p. 592; It is said to that this was written on the door of Charles II’s bedchamber, and that on seeing it, the king replied, “This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers’....”
Other

“For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i. Compare: "Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd muse!", Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation, Postscript.
Other

“Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

A Letter from Artemisia in Town to Chloe in the Country (1679)

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