Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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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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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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