The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him.
Guillaume Thomas Francois RaynalGovernment owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.
Guillaume Thomas Francois RaynalThought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.
Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal