The first step is the hardest.

Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte.

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond

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Getting started

Author

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond

Language

French

Time

1763 1760s 18th century

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Writer

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France Europe

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Madame du Deffand. Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. 7 July 1763.

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The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, ch. 7.

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Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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