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1755–1802 Denmark

Niels Ditlev Riegels, originally Niels Detlev Regelsen, (1755 in Solstedgaard - 24 August 1802) was a Danish historian, spy, and social critic of the Enlightenment school.

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The despair, concentrated at the beginning of the 18th century, did not erupt until its end, but then it erupted violently and terrifyingly.

History has shown that of all human beings, none have been more subject to whims than unruly rulers; for while those who surround the thrones create, establish, and control the whims of rulers, they control the people through them.

Who can deny that absolute power requires a high degree of wisdom and masculine justice in order to be used and enjoyed justly and lovingly, to the point that man seems to have been created too weak to bear it

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