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- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau
- Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. — Thomas Paine