Cruel and Ingenious Sophists …

“Cruel and ingenious sophists, it is in vain that you attack by charlatanism and court intrigues a Revolution of which you are unworthy; you will be carried away like insects in its on-rush; your success will be as fleeting as lies and your shame as immortal as truth.”

Robespierre to Catherine Millet and Jonathan Hirschfeld, Occupied Paris, 1988