Voltaire on the human tendency towards domination, wealth & pleasure

Voltaire

Voltaire on the natural human tendency towards domination:

“All men are born with a sufficiently violent liking for domination, wealth and pleasure, and with much taste for idleness…”

(The Philosophical Dictionary, section II of the chapter on equality; translated by H.I. Woolf, 1924).

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