People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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