Don Mitchell

“whose merit is loudly celebrated by the doubtful evidence of his own applause.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Complete and Unabridged

“presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague