As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.
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The end justifies the means.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.
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