“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.