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- | Florio translation: "Kings and Philosophers obey nature, and goe to the stoole, and so doe Ladies" | + | John Florio translation: "Kings and Philosophers obey nature, and goe to the stoole, and so doe Ladies." |
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+ | Charles Cotton translation: "Both kings and philosophers go to stool, and ladies too." | ||
+ | ==Etymology== | ||
+ | '''Fientent''' is derived from fiente, from vulgar Latin ''[[fimum]]'', [[dung]], [[ordure]], [[excrement]]. | ||
- | Charles Cotton translation: | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
- | *"Au plus eslevé throne du monde si ne sommes assis que sus nostre cul" ("Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses")[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Essays_of_Montaigne/Book_III/Chapter_XIII] | + | *"Au plus eslevé throne du monde si ne sommes assis que sus nostre cul" ("Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses"), "[[Of Experience]]"[http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/Livre_III/13], translated by Cotton as "when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech." |
*[[Corporeality in Montaigne]] | *[[Corporeality in Montaigne]] | ||
*[[Toilet philosophy]] | *[[Toilet philosophy]] | ||
*[[Egality]] | *[[Egality]] | ||
+ | *[[Naturalia non sunt turpia]] | ||
+ | *[[Shit]] | ||
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[[Category:Dicta]] | [[Category:Dicta]] |
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"Et les Roys et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi" (Both kings and philosophers shit, and ladies do, as well) is a dictum from Montaigne's Essays, from the chapter "Of Experience" [1].
Two historical translations:
John Florio translation: "Kings and Philosophers obey nature, and goe to the stoole, and so doe Ladies."
Charles Cotton translation: "Both kings and philosophers go to stool, and ladies too."
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Etymology
Fientent is derived from fiente, from vulgar Latin fimum, dung, ordure, excrement.
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See also
- "Au plus eslevé throne du monde si ne sommes assis que sus nostre cul" ("Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses"), "Of Experience"[2], translated by Cotton as "when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech."
- Corporeality in Montaigne
- Toilet philosophy
- Egality
- Naturalia non sunt turpia
- Shit
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