"Achilles replies that there is no equality of right between the
weak and the strong, for men have never made pacts with lions nor have lambs and wolves ever shared the same desires. This was the law of the heroic people, based on the belief that the strong were of a different and more noble nature than the weak. Hence arose that law of war through which, by force of arms, the victors deprive the defeated of their rights of natural liberty, so that the Romans took them as slaves in place of material things. "
Giambattista Vico, Vico: The First New Science
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