The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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