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Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature ...more

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But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition o...more

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

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Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.