إن كل اعتناءٍ في حسن معاملة هذه الحيوانات وتغذيتها لا يؤدي إلى غير إفسادها، - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

For in appearing to use only its rights, the Prince can very easily expand them and, on the pretext of public calm, prevent assemblies intended to restore good order; so that it takes advantage either of a silence that it prevents from being broken, or of the irregularities that it causes to be committed, and to punish those who dare speak.

Above all he is jealous of his own self-respect; this is his most valued possession and it would be a real loss to him were he to acquire the respect of others at the expense of his own.