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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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