Sunday, June 09, 2019

 

Eternal Echos

Montesquieu (1689-1755), Pensées et fragments inédits, Tome II (Bordeaux: Imprimerie de G. Gounouilhou, 1901), p. 129:
La plupart des gens se ressemblent en ce qu'ils ne pensent point: échos éternels, qui n'ont jamais rien dit et ont toujours répété; artisans grossiers des idées des autres.
Translated by Henry C. Clark:
Most people resemble each other in that they do not think: eternal echos, who have never said anything but have always repeated; crude artisans of others' ideas.



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