Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat:
Marquis de Condorcet.
(Ribemont, 17 September 1743 – Bourg-la-Reine, 28 March 1794).
French philosopher, mathematician and politician (and early political scientist) who developed the concept of the Condorcet method. In many facets ahead of his time as an 18th-century thinker, he advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, constitutional law, and equal rights for women and for people of all races. His ideas and writings influenced French and world politics and remain influential to this day.
Friendship does not blind itself to faults, it sees them, but it judges them with indulgence.
