Jean de Sponde (Joanes Ezponda, in Basque, 1557 – 18 March 1595) was a Baroque French poet.
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“You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
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