Persian Letters [Lettres Persanes], Letter 8, Usbek to Rustan (1721) [tr. Floyd (1762)] - Montesquieu, Baron de | WIST Quotations
What wouldest thou have me follow? what my enemies think prudent, or what I myself think to be so? [Que veux-tu que je suive, la prudence de mes ennemis, ou la mienne?] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: What wouldst thou have me pursue; the Prudence of my Enemies, or my own?…
