And to accomplish this they inflame the people.

Already in Dauphiny we have seen blood run like water--the blood of the populace, always the blood of the populace.

Now in Brittany we may see the like.

And if in the end the new ideas prevail?
if the seigneurial rule is overthrown, what then?
You will have exchanged an aristocracy for a plutocracy.

Is that worth while?
Do you 'think that under money-changers and slave-traders and men who have waxed rich in other ways by the ignoble arts of buying and selling, the lot of the people will be any better than under their priests and nobles?
Has it ever occurred to you, Philippe, what it is that makes the rule of the nobles so intolerable?
Acquisitiveness.
Acquisitiveness is the curse of mankind.