The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

- African Spir

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no re…

- African Spir

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.

- African Spir

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the…

- African Spir

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer…

- African Spir

If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compas…

- African Spir

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher con…

- African Spir

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a …

- African Spir

Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or ta…

- African Spir