"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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