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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

— Vilfredo Pareto

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Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

History is a graveyard of aristocracies.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

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