Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 10
“Nothing depict better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed at the head of a State, and who should, so to speak, embody (or personnify) the law, be concerned (or worried, or preccupied) only with their own prestige and their own particular interests.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 51.
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