But that's against our animal instincts - we're hard-wired to ...

fatti non foste a viver come bruti

ma per seguir virtue e conoscenza

Dante, Canto 26, Ulysses

You were not made to live like brutes

But to follow virtue and knowledge

Equality before the law

The Law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France, quoted in Powe The Fourth Estate and the Constitution.

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Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 17 May.