"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."

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Source : Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

Thomas Hobbes

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“It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.”
“We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.”
“Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.”

Source : Barnabe Barnes (1593). “Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes”
“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

Source : Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”
“Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?”
“Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.”
“When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.”
“I was born into public service.”

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