Letter 95 — On the Usefulness of Basic Principles (§53)

“Let this verse be in your heart and on your lips: I am a man; and nothing in man’s lot Do I deem foreign to me. Let us possess things in common; for birth is ours in common. Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way.”