The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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