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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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Whatsoever is, is in God.

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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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God is not He who is, but That which is.

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To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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All is One (Nature, God)

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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