Sunday, June 25, 2023

Too Great An Undertaking!

Jean de La Bruyère, The «Characters» of Jean de la Bruyère, tr. Henri Van Laun (London, 1885), ch. I., Of Works of the Mind, §2, p. 8:

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions; this would be too great an undertaking.

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