A quotation from Moliere

MME. PERNELLE: The tongues of spite are busy night and noon.
And to their venom no man is immune.
 
[Les langues ont toujours du venin à répandre,
Et rien n’est ici-bas qui s’en puisse défendre.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 5, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77070/

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Incompetence Leavened With Malignity

The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.

By Eliot A. Cohen

There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.

#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/