“However, virtue exists, I assure you, sensitive and pure souls. There is this tender, majestic, and irresistible passion, the torment and sweetness of noble hearts.

The deep horror of tyranny, the compassionate zeal for the oppressed, the sacred love for the homeland, the highest and holiest love for humanity, without which a great revolution is nothing but a noisy crime that destroys another crime.

There exists this noble ambition to establish the first People's State of the world on earth.”

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]