Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

任何法律都不能废除真正的贵族制度:法律所能做的只是规定如何传授，以及由谁来获得。

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格