"Let us sum up this government! Who is at the Élysée and the Tuileries? Crime. Who is established at the Luxembourg? Baseness. Who at the Palais Bourbon? Imbecility. Who at the Palais d'Orsay?...And who are in the prisons... in the dungeons...in exile? Law, honour, intelligence, liberty, and the right. Book I, VI"
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"Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī: Lawāih, A treatise on Sufism: translated by Mirza Muhammad Kazvini, Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1906"
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