As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, becaus… — Pensées
SAPIR 861
As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because might rules all, they exist everywhere and always. But since only caprice makes such and such a one a ruler, the principle is not constant, but subject to variation, etc.
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