“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.