Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
Born: 1717
Died: 1778 (aged 61)
Bio: Étienne-Gabriel Morelly was a French utopian thinker and novelist. An otherwise obscure tax official, Morelly wrote two books on education and a critique of Montesquieu.