"Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society."
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"Justice and truth are the common ties of society"
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"I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man."
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"We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body."
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"Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws."
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"Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass."
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"People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply."
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"Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage."
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"Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis."
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