Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.