"Die Menge nicht zu achten, ist sittlich; sie zu ehren, ist rechtlich."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. — Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments” § 211