Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-01


"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) Les Caractères

Marie Antoinette au Tribunal Révolutionnaire
Engraving by Alphonse François, from a painting by Paul Delaroche (1857)

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