"Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice."
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"I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living."
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"Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on."
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"Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought."
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"Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer."
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"Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former."
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"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
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"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."
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"Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind."
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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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"The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims."
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"Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself."
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"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
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"The good of the people is the greatest law."
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"But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature."
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"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
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"Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed."
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"It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself."
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"Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion."
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"... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience."
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