Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCEROld 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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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