I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
