A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Weak men are the light troops in the army of the wicked. They do more harm than the main force; they overrun and and ravage the country.
 
[Les gens faibles sont les troupes légères de l’armée des méchans. Ils font plus de mal que l’armée même; ils infestent et ils ravagent.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 133 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/753…

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“So lost indeed was I in this jungle of delusion that I was quite surprised when one beautiful sunset in May, sitting at ease under the shadow of the Lion de Belfort, I became aware of a temptation of the devil. Quite a number of people had been asking me during the last few months to compromise with respectability. And by Jove! I nearly did! I was ill — forgive the wavering! I am wise in time, luckily, and my ‘Retro Satanas’ takes this form.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/03/07/so-lost-indeed-was-i-in-this-jungle-of-delusion-that-i-was-quite-surprised-when-one-beautiful-sunset-in-may-sitting-at-ease-under-the-shadow-of-the-lion-de-belfort-i-became-aware-of-a-temptation-o/

Presenting, the #third #weekly #report of seven 3-liners, my #haiku #experiment - Each with a #perspective and an #anecdote in a separate post.

✍️ https://medium.com/illumination/weekly-haiku-roundup-003-ed6d658bf44d?sk=e4a8a99345d4250670a41c1c9e17387f

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After
#hedging
#hemming and hawing
#wavering
#sneaking numerous peeks
Tonight I finished deleting everything from my Twitter account and shut it down.
Reasons
# Don't want to support Musk in anyway🤮
#It brought out the meanest side of my nature😡
# and it sent my blood pressure through the roof. 😣
bye-bye twisted birdie☠️
Upward and onward🙏