We are all in the habit of censuring the great, as if we were popular playwrights, when in fact ordinary folk… — Gore Vidal
We are all in the habit of censuring the great, as if we were popular playwrights, when in fact ordinary folk are quite as devious and as willful and as desperate to survive (if not prevail) as are thee great; particularly philosophers.
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