'Tis not true reason I despise, but yours.
Thus I think reason righted, but for man...
That lust of power, to which he's such a slave,
And for the which alone he dares be brave...
All this with indignation have I hurled
At the pretending part of the proud world,
Who, swollen with selfish vanity, devise
False Freedoms, holy cheats, and formal lies
Over their fellow slaves to tyrannize.
~John Wilmont, Earl of Rochester
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