Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.
For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.
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