... c'est la magie de la constance, la plus difficile et la plus rare de nos vertus. - Denis Diderot

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!