To this twofold inconvenience democracies and aristocracies are equally liable, whether they be good or bad. The evil is in the very thing itself, and no form can redress it.

• 这种令人沮丧的双妨害，即使在民主国家和贵族国家也是在所难免的，无论其政体是优越还是低劣。这种弊害来源于事物的自然法则，任何法制形式都无法医治。