Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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