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• With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [men/order/right]
• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [right]
• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [right/life/order]
• The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. (John Ruskin) [start/right]
• Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. (John Ruskin) [thing/people/right/time]
• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money. (John Ruskin) [right/take/wealth/money]
• My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. (Carl Schurz) [right/right/right/right]
• I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience] (Tom Selleck) [right]
• If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ( Seneca) [right]
• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ( Seneca) [right]
• Modesty forbids what the law does not. ( Seneca) [right]
• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ( Seneca) [shame/right]
• The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right! (William Shakespeare) [time/right]
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (George Bernard Shaw) [more/right/happiness/wealth]
• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both. (George Bernard Shaw) [men//right/right]
• Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. (George Bernard Shaw) [wish/right]
• It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (Sydney Smith) [right/faith]
• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. ( Socrates) [desire/right/direction/pleasure]
• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ( Socrates) [people/right/philosophy/death]
• Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. ( Solon) [society/people/right]
• The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in. (Gertrude Stein) [mother/war/right/age]
• We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force. (Laurence Sterne) [right]
• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. (Laurence Sterne) [absurd/right/shame/defeat]
• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. (Max Stirner) [state/right/crime]
• Necessity knows no law except to conquer. () [right]
• The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. (Henry David Thoreau) [artist/right/observation/genius]
• What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? (Henry David Thoreau) [right]
• We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend. (Henry David Thoreau) [right]
• The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. (Henry David Thoreau) [right/willpower/men/men]
• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right. (Henry David Thoreau) [respect/right/respect/right]
• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. (Henry David Thoreau) [human/right/nation]

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