I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.


Recollections (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1896) - ISBN: 9781465507860

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in...