Therefore our kings seek out no disguises. They do not mask themselves… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Therefore our kings seek out no disguises. They do not mask themselves in extraordinary costumes to appear such; but they are accompanied by guards and halberdiers. Those armed and red-faced puppets who have hands and power for them alone, those trumpets and drums which go before them, and those legions round about them, make the stoutest tremble. They have not dress only, they have might. A very refined reason is required to regard as an ordinary man the Grand Turk, in his superb seraglio, surrounded by forty thousand janissaries.

Endroit: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶283
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