Thomas-Simon Gueullette

Thomas-Simon Gueullette (2 June 1683 – 2 December 1766) was a French lawyer, playwright, and scholar who also wrote fairy tales and works on the theatre itself.

Quotes

One of our Poets has elegantly compar’d all kind of Men to the Pieces, wherewith we play at Chess: ... but when once the Game is over, and the Chess-board shut, they are thrown promiscuously together into the same Box, without any manner of Distinction.

• The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he to me; and ’tis with very great Justice that one of our Poets has elegantly compar’d all kind of Men to the Pieces, wherewith we play at Chess: Some act the Kings, the Queens, the Knights, the Fools, and simple Pawns. There is a vast Difference between them, while they are in Motion; but when once the Game is over, and the Chess-board shut, they are thrown promiscuously together into the same Box, without any manner of Distinction. Death does the very same thing: Kings, Emperors, Merchants, Slaves, Warriors, Men of the Robe, and of the Revenue, all then become equal; and there is nothing but our good Deeds and Charity towards our Neighbours, that will give us one Day a Superiority above others.
  • Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam. Related by Himself, To divert the Sultana, upon the Celebration of her Nuptials, translated by Thomas Stackhouse, 2nd ed (London: J. Osborn, 1740) "The Fortieth Evening: The farther Continuation of the Adventures of the Dervise Assirkan", p. 192 [1]

See also

• Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) st. 49

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas-Simon Gueullette on Wikipedia