The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
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