The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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