Nothing is more to me than myself.
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.