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Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

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Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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