Louis Bazin (December 20, 1920 - 2 March 2011) was a French orientalist.
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“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.”
—André Bazin (1918–1958)