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A society must always aim for balance. It needs intellectuals, it needs warriors, it needs traders, it needs artists, and it needs skilled workers. If it empowers one group too much or another too little, it is headed for chaos.’
And then each of these groups have to add according to the thermal of the passions and not try to screw the other
It is in our hands to be happy. Always in our hands.
That the rich would not think of risking their lives or property for their motherland wasn’t surprising.
it never is. is it that the poor have nothing to lose and thus have more faith in abstract ideas of nation and society ? while the rich are more secure in their material wealth which they know to be more substantial than all else !!

