A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is… — Nicolas Chamfort
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
In the original French
On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idees, comme on n'est pas un bon General poue avoir beaucoup de soldats.
1796
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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 29.
