Friday, March 4, 2022

More foolish and more dangerous.

I saw a quote attributed to the French playwright and poet Molière (1622-1673), "Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."  I read this subsequent to some pondering upon the hasty and rag-tag testing associated with the mRNA vaccines.  Testing so incomplete that it forecast neither the rapid decline in efficacy of the vaccines nor the rapid emergence of lethal side-effects among some populations.  

However, the quote, pertinent as it might have been, seems to be merely attributed to Molière with no documentation confirming that he did actually coin that thought.

But the search was not unfruitful.  I found a handful of other Molière quotes equally as relevant.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
- Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), Act III, sc. iii

People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous.
- Preface to Tartuffe

Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.
- Tartuffe, Act I, sc. i

And perhaps the most pertinent after this two year exercise in demonstrating the emptiness and evil of policies developed by and deployed through coercion on an unready populace by credentialed but ineffective "experts."

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
- Les Femmes Savantes, Act IV, sc. iii

More foolish and more dangerous.

 



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