If they are defeated they rejoice, since defeat is their chief glory; but if they are victorious they rejoice still more in the benevolent thought that they have conferred upon the enemy the joy, the glory, and the honor of defeat.
Here all shrink from governing others.

The highest wish of each is to serve.

The Meleks and Kohens, whom I at first considered the highest, are really the lowest orders; next to these come the authors, then the merchants, then farmers, then artisans, then laborers, and, finally, the highest rank is reached in the paupers.

Happy the aristocratic, the haughty, the envied paupers! The same thing is seen in their armies.

The privates here are highest in rank, and the officers come next in different graduations.