Sublime

the revolutionary of yesterday is very often the conservative of to-day.

Il n’avait que vingt-trois ans et il était déjà un infréquentable, un couillon que les gens bien regardaient avec suspicion, du haut de leur conformisme douillet. Ah oui, se reprit-il, ce ne sont pas eux qui s’écarteraient des idées bien en cour, adoubées, proprettes, de ces idées que tous revendiquent car elles vous valent l’assentiment général, l

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Che

Vilfredo Pareto was a 19th century Italian economist. He is perhaps best known for the 80/20 rule that is named after him and which has application in a number of fields.

le pédagogue français Édouard Séguin (1812-1880)