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Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

— 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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