And can they say of any system tried that it proved other than a failure in the end?
My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past.

Ab actu ad posse valet consecutio.

Man never changes.

He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile.

I am speaking of Man in the bulk." "Do you pretend that it is impossible to ameliorate the lot of the people ?" M.de Vilmorin challenged him.
"When you say the people you mean, of course, the populace.