Baruch Spinoza Quotes
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Wayne Dyer
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Garth Brooks
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T. J. Miller
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Barry Jenkins
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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The Clash
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza