Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.


Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (ed. 1827)


We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.