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If Exclusive Privileges Were Not Granted, And If The Financial System Would Not Tend To Concentrate Wealth, There Would Be Few Great Fortunes And No Quick Wealth. When The Means Of Growing Rich Is Divided Between A Greater Number Of Citizens, Wealth Will Also Be More Evenly Distributed; Extreme Poverty And Extreme Wealth Would Be Also Rare.

I Discuss With Myself Questions Of Politics, Love, Taste, Or Philosophy. I Let My Mind Rove Wantonly, Give It Free Rein To Followany Idea, Wise Or Mad That May Present Itself. My Ideas Are My Harlots.

Power Acquired By Violence Is Only A Usurpation, And Lasts Only As Long As The Force Of Him Who Commands Prevails Over That Of Those Who Obey.

We Swallow With One Gulp The Lie That Flatters Us, And Drink Drop By Drop The Truth Which Is Bitter To Us.

Disturbances In Society Are Never More Fearful Than When Those Who Are Stirring Up The Trouble Can Use The Pretext Of Religion To Mask Their True Designs.