Victor Cousin quotes

" True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Invention and Inventor # Writers and Writing

" You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. " # Government # Freedom # Power

" All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. " # Law and Lawyers # Economy and Economics # Impartiality