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Quality Quotes - Page 76

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

Conversation with Nassau William Senior on May 22, 1850 "Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859", p. 94, 1872.