Jean le Rond d'Alembert Quote

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.


A Dictionary of Terms, Phrases,and Quotations (D. Appleton, 1895), p. 650


A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.