“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”

—  Ernest Renan

Orlando, in Caliban, act 2, sc. 1 (1878).

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