"All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it"

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We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

— Thomas a Kempis