A comprehesive course on the Constitution?

[Robert Sheridan]

Our motto...

On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Scarberry, Mark wrote:

> Correction: I left out the word "do" from the quote, which should  
> read: "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to  
> do it solemnly."
>
> Mark Scarberry
>
> From: conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Scarberry, Mark
> Sent: Fri 2/15/2008 10:59 AM
> To: conlawprof at lists.ucla.edu
> Subject: RE: A comprehesive course on the Constitution?
>
> Perhaps there would be room for this quote from Montaigne (Essays,  
> Book III, Chapter 1, the first line of "Of Profit and Honesty," as  
> found on numerous quotable quote websites and on a poster I used to  
> have up on the my wall of my dorm room):
>
> "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to it  
> solemnly."
>
> I've also seen the quote attributed to D.A. Battista, whoever that  
> is. Here is the 17th Century Charles Cotton translation of that  
> passage, including the latin quote that followed it in Montaigne's  
> essay (I'm not sure whether the translation of the Latin quote is  
> Cotton's):
>
> "No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is,  
> when a man labours to play the fool:
>                 ' Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit. '
>
>      [' Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty  
> trifle. '
>      —-Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.]"
> [from Project Gutenberg, The Essays of Montaigne, Complete, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3600 
> ] .
> Mark S. Scarberry
> Pepperdine University School of Law
>
>
>
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