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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of ...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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the...more