Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.