The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

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Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

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The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

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Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

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