It shines beneath the vaulted roof of their brain, it enlightens and guides them, it shows them the true outlines of life; it exhibits to them, in the obscurity of human destiny, good and evil, the just and the unjust, the real and the false, ignominy and honour, honesty and knavery, virtue and crime.

This star, without which the human soul is but darkness, is moral truth.
Wanting this light, you have deceived yourself.

Your ballot of the 20th of December is, in the eyes of the thinker, merely a sort of monstrous simplicity.

You have applied what you call "universal suffrage" to a question to which universal suffrage did not apply.

You are not a politician, you are a malefactor.