Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (7 March 1764, Paris – 15 February 1830), second duke of Lévis, peer of France, was a French politician, aphorist and député to the National Constituent Assembly. His father was the first duke of Lévis, marshal Francis de Gaston. In 1816 he was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française. During the French Revolution, he escaped to England. Two of his three sisters and his mother were sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis

He is credited with the quotation "Boredom is an illness for which work is the remedy". The quotation often attributed to Voltaire, "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers" is a version of one of his maxims - "Il est encore plus facile de juger de l'esprit d'un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses." (It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers) from Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808): Maxim xviii.[1]

Works
1808 : Voyage de Kang-Hi, ou nouvelles lettres chinoises, 2 vol.
1808 : Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets
1812 : Suite des quatre Fiercadins
1814 : L'Angleterre au commencement du XIXe siècle
1813 : Souvenirs et portraits 1780-1789[2]
1816 : Considérations morales sur les finances
1818 : Des emprunts
1819 : De l'autorité des chambres sur leurs membres
1824 : Considérations sur la situation financière de la France
1828 : La conspiration de 1821 ou les jumeaux de Chevreuse, 2 vol.
1829 : Lettre sur la méthode Jacotot
gollark: `string.dump(string.dump)`
gollark: This is ***evil*** code.
gollark: Not my code.
gollark: This literally says "pay attention to what you run", *but actually warns you twice*.
gollark: ```lua --Error screen term.clear() term.setCursorPos(1,1) print("ERROR!!!") sleep(0.1) print("ERROR CODE: ERR_OS_CORRUPT") sleep(0.1) print("Detailed information for diagnostics follow:") sleep(0.1) print("0x00000001 0x00000002 0x00000010") sleep(0.1) print("0x00000101 0x00120000 0x01000300") sleep(0.1) print("0x00000000 0x00001040 0x0000000F") sleep(0.1) print("0x00010506 0x01200040 0x00000003") sleep(0.1) term.setCursorPos(1,10) sleep(0.3) print("If you installed any new hardware or software,") sleep(0.1) print("try removing them before restarting.") sleep(0.1) print("If the problem still persists, bring your computer") sleep(0.1) print("to a technician.") sleep(0.2) print("Error program left a message: Pay attention to what you run next time ;)") sleep(0.1) term.setCursorPos(1,17) sleep(0.3) print("You will lose all unsaved work.") sleep(2) print("This computer has been terminated.")```

References
  1. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire
  2. Harvard catalog record
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