“First of all, this prince is an idiot, and, secondly, he is a fool--knows nothing of the world, and has no place in it.”
The Idiot, Part IV., Chapter V.
General, The Idiot (1868–9)
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“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Quote of Picabia in his 'Manifesto, 1921'; as cited in Manifesto: A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, p 319
1920's
Où est le prince assez instruit pour savoir que depuis dix-sept cents ans la secte chrétienne n’a jamais fait que du mal?
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767 http://perso.orange.fr/dboudin/VOLTAIRE/45/1767/6824.html
Citas
Leslie Burke
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
...князь утверждает, что мир спасет красота! А я утверждаю, что у него оттого такие игривые мысли, что он теперь влюблен.
The Idiot (1868–9)
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.25
“How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?”
“She is all states, and all princes, I,
Nothing else is.”
The Sun Rising, stanza 3
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 22